This book introduces, edits, and translates the two earliest texts of the haṭhayoga tradition, the Amṛtasiddhi and the *Amṛtasiddhimūla (which survives only in Tibetan translation). With access to an extremely rare bilingual manuscript, it argues that the origins of haṭhayoga are found in an eclectic tantric Buddhist milieu, active possibly around the first half of the 12th century or perhaps even earlier. The texts provide fundamental and later very influential teachings on the nature of the yogic body, psycho-physical practices centred on manipulating bindu, the types of practitioners, and much more. The book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of yoga alike.

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