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Sinossi
Il testo degli "Yogasutra" risale al periodo compreso tra il II e il IV secolo d.C. e viene tradizionalmente attribuito a Patanjali, filosofo indiano di cui si conosce pochissimo. Gli scritti, le massime e i frammenti che compongono gli "Yogasutra" sono l'esito della scrupolosa disamina svolta dal loro autore, il quale rivisita e incrementa un ampio novero di materiali e saperi che lo precedono. Gli "Yogasutra" sono il principale pilastro teorico e spirituale di una lunga tradizione di pratiche filosofiche e visioni del mondo sintetizzate dalla parola "yoga". Costituito da circa duecento aforismi, il libro tratta di ascesi, meditazione e del percorso da intraprendere per giungere a un'autentica conoscenza e padronanza dell'esperienza di sé. Finora spesso travisati o banalizzati, gli "Yogasutra" vengono qui presentati in un'accuratissima edizione tradotta dal sanscrito sulla base della recente edizione critica, con un commento storico-filologico e filosofico che cambia profondamente la struttura e il senso del testo.
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- Pagine: 206
- Data di uscita: 12-05-2015
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My Penguin Classic edition of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra begins with a long introduction, by translator Shyam Ranganathan, about the many challenges faced when translating philosophical texts, especially when you are trying to make them clear and accurate to an audience that comes for a completely diffe Leggi tutto
Yoga is all the rage nowadays, as all of us in the modern world know. If I decided today that I wanted to start taking yoga classes, I could just head over to Bedrock Yoga, on Main Street in downtown Manassas, Virginia, and get started. And while that’s not likely to happen, I respect yoga – as phys Leggi tutto
Engaging translation but not the best commentary This book was first published in London in 1982 as Effortless Being: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I assume the translation of the sutras is the same while Shearer, who is a disciple of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, has updated his Introduction. The text Leggi tutto
Until Patanjali wrote his original yoga sutras about 4000 years ago, there was no written record about yoga, even though it was already being practiced for centuries. Sutra in Sanksrit means a thread that holds things together. Each of Patanjali's short, sharp and succinct sutras is like a little kn Leggi tutto
Georg Feuerstein is in love with his words. How else to explain his needlessly flashy translation that renders perfectly well known Sanskrit terms such as samadhi with equivalents like "enstasy"? Eliade sets many excellent precedents in his "Yoga", but this is not one of them. Feuerstein's translati Leggi tutto
There are about a billion editions of Patanjali’s The Yoga Sutras . The one I got was a free or very cheap on Kindle, and is, therefore, probably not the best edition. I don’t know that the Kindle version I got still exists because it included a supplemental essay by Swami Vivekananda that the versio Leggi tutto
The amount of time I've spent rereading Asian scriptures in the past month is embarrassing, but its an obsession that always helps me pull myself together when I'm crazy and heartbroken. I spent a few weeks reading this one every single morning (don't panic - it's short and only takes about 20 minut Leggi tutto
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