The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha

The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga

Jason BIRCH

Collection : Collection Indologie

Collection's number: 157

Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)

Publication date: 2024

Status : Available

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ISBN-13 : 9782855392639

ISSN : 0073-8352

Width : 17 cm

Height : 24 cm

Weight : 0.38 kg

Number of pages : 176

Distributor : EFEO Diffusion, EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org

Geography : India

Language : English, Sanskrit

Place : Pondichéry

Support : Papier

Description :

176 p., English, Sanskrit, paperback

ISBN EFEO : 9782855392639

ISBN IFP : 9788184702507

Collection Indologie n˚ 157

Haṭhayoga series n˚ 3

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Abstract

The Lineage of Immortals (Sanskrit Amaraugha) is the earliest account of a fourfold system of yoga in which a physical practice called Haṭha is taught as the means to a deep state of meditation known as Rājayoga. The Amaraugha was composed in Sanskrit during the twelfth century and attributed to the author Gorakṣanātha. The physical yoga practices have a pre-history in a tantric Buddhist milieu but were here adapted for a Śaiva audience. The treatise explains how Śaiva yogis move kuṇḍalinī, unite Śakti with Śiva, and achieve Rājayoga. Three hundred years later, the author of the Haṭhapradīpikā incorporated almost all the Amaraugha's verses on Haṭhayoga into his own work, which became a definitive exposition of physical yoga. The study of the Amaraugha reveals not only the genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga but also the creation of the most influential model of Haṭhayoga in the early modern period. This book presents the first critical edition and annotated translation of the Amaraugha, as well as a later recension, called the Amaraughaprabodha, with an introduction that explores the profound significance of both works for the history of yoga.

Table of contents

Acknowledgement
 
Introduction
          The Amaraugha
          Two Recensions, Two Names
          Synopsis of Content
          Authorship
          Date of Composition
                      Previous Attempts to Date the Text
                      The date based on New Evidence
          Region and Sectarian Affiliation
          Continuities and Discontinuities with the Amṛtasiddhi
                      From Raising Generative Fluidsto Moving Kuṇḍalinī
                      Forceful Vajrayāna and Śaiva Yogas
          The Four Yogas
                      Meaning of yoga in the Context of Four Yoga
                      Mantrayoga
                      Layayoga
                      Haṭhayoga
                      Rājayoga
          The Amaraugha’s Haṭha and Subsequent Traditions
          Editorial Matters
                      Manuscripts
                      Stemma
                      Past Editions
                      Editorial Policies
 
Critical Edition of the Amaraugha
 
Critical Edition of the Amaraughaprabodha
 
Annotated Translation of the Amaraugha
 
Annotated Translation of the Amaraughaprabodha
 
Abreviations
 
Bibliography
          Primary Sources
          Secondary Sources
 
Index

Notes

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