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Author : Pierre Arnold Bernard
Release : 1919
Genre : Vedas
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Book Synopsis Vira Sadhana by : Pierre Arnold Bernard
Download or read book Vira Sadhana written by Pierre Arnold Bernard. This book was released on 1919. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefanie Syman
Release : 2010-06-15
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis The Subtle Body by : Stefanie Syman
Download or read book The Subtle Body written by Stefanie Syman. This book was released on 2010-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga's transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar American industry. Yoga's history in America is longer and richer than even its most devoted practitioners realize. It was present in Emerson's New England, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was fashionable among the leisure class. And yet when Americans first learned about yoga, what they learned was that it was a dangerous, alien practice that would corrupt body and soul. A century later, you can find yoga in gyms, malls, and even hospitals, and the arrival of a yoga studio in a neighborhood is a signal of cosmopolitanism. How did it happen? It did so, Stefanie Syman explains, through a succession of charismatic yoga teachers, who risked charges of charlatanism as they promoted yoga in America, and through generations of yoga students, who were deemed unbalanced or even insane for their efforts. The Subtle Body tells the stories of these people, including Henry David Thoreau, Pierre A. Bernard, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Christopher Isherwood, Sally Kempton, and Indra Devi. From New England, the book moves to New York City and its new suburbs between the wars, to colonial India, to postwar Los Angeles, to Haight-Ashbury in its heyday, and back to New York City post-9/11. In vivid chapters, it takes in celebrities from Gloria Swanson and George Harrison to Christy Turlington and Madonna. And it offers a fresh view of American society, showing how a seemingly arcane and foreign practice is as deeply rooted here as baseball or ballet. This epic account of yoga's rise is absorbing and often inspiring—a major contribution to our understanding of our society.
Author : B. D. Sharma
Release : 2003
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Book Rating : 041/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Holistic Health Healing and Astrosciences by : B. D. Sharma
Download or read book Holistic Health Healing and Astrosciences written by B. D. Sharma. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaurinath Bhattacharyya Shastri
Release : 2002
Genre : Tantrism
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Book Synopsis Rituals and Practices of Tantra by : Gaurinath Bhattacharyya Shastri
Download or read book Rituals and Practices of Tantra written by Gaurinath Bhattacharyya Shastri. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Veenhof
Release : 2011-05-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis White Lama by : Douglas Veenhof
Download or read book White Lama written by Douglas Veenhof. This book was released on 2011-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing, often overlooked story of the man who brought Yoga and Tibetan culture to America. Theos Bernard’s colorful, enigmatic, and sometimes contradictory life captures an intersection of East and West that changed our world. After years of forcibly stopping foreigners at the borders, the leaders of Tibet opened the doors to their kingdom in 1937 for Theos Bernard. He was the third American to set foot in Tibet and the first American ever initiated into Tantric practices by the highest lama in Tibet. When Bernard left that sacred land, he was sent home with fifty mule loads of priceless, essential Buddhist scriptures from government and monastery vaults. Bernard brought these writings to America, where he achieved celebrity as a spiritual master. Appearing four times on the cover of the largest-circulation magazine of the day, befriending some of the most famous figures of his era, including Charles Lindbergh, Lowell Thomas, Ganna Walska, and W. Y. Evans-Wentz, and working with legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, the charismatic and controversial “White Lama” introduced a new vision of life and spiritual path to American culture before mysteriously disappearing in the Himalayas in 1947. Biography, travel and adventure, a history of Tibet’s opening to the West, and the story of Buddhism and Yoga’s arrival in America, White Lama: The Life of Tantric Yogi Theos Bernard, Tibet’s Lost Emissary to the West is the first work to tell his groundbreaking story in full and is a narrative that thrills from beginning to end. Includes 15 photographs shot in Tibet in 1937 by Theos Bernard, part of a collection that has been described as the best photographic record of Tibet in existence.
