Yogis And Texts Habighorst Detail

Project Publications

DR JASON BIRCH
BOOKS
2025A Manual on the Practice of Haṭhayoga: An Edition and Translation of the Pune Manuscript of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati (co-authored with Mark Singleton and James Mallinson). Collection Indologie, Hatha Yoga Series. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry.
2024Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. Collection Indologie 161, Hatha Yoga Series 4. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry.
2023The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga. Collection Indologie 157, Hatha Yoga Series 3. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry.
ARTICLES
2020“The Quest for Liberation-in-Life: A Survey of Early Works on Haṭha- and Rājayoga”, pp.200–242 in The [Oxford] History of Hinduism: Hindu Practice, ed. Gavin Flood. Oxford: OUP.
2020“Haṭhayoga’s Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism”, pp.451–479 in Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson. Leiden: Brill.
2019“The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity” (with Mark Singleton), pp.3–70 in Journal of Yoga Studies 2.
2019“The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga”, pp.947–977 in Journal of Indian Philosophy 47.
2018“Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda: Preliminary Remarks on Shared Terminology, Theory and Praxis”, pp.1–83 in History of Science in South Asia 6.
2018“The Proliferation of Āsanas in Late Mediaeval Yoga Texts”, pp.101–180 in Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, eds. Karl Baier, Philipp Maas & Karin Preisendanz. Vienna: V&R unipress.

Other publications by Jason Birch are available on academia.edu.

PROFESSOR JAMES MALLINSON
BOOKS
2025A Manual on the Practice of Yoga: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati (co-authored with Jason Birch and Mark Singleton). Pondicherry: IFP/EFEO.
2024The Dattātreyayogaśāstra. Pondicherry: IFP/EFEO.
2022The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga.
2017Roots of Yoga (co-authored with Mark Singleton). London: Penguin Classics.
ARTICLES
2025“The Amṛtasiddhi: Haṭhayoga’s Flash in the Alchemical Pan”, pp.255–270 in Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts, ed. Dagmar Wujastyk. OUP.
2023“Nath Yogis and their ‘Amazing Apparel’ in Early Material and Textual Sources”, pp.65–95 in Objects, Images, Stories: Simon Digby’s historical method, ed. F. Orsini. OUP.
2022“Manuscript of the Yogabhāskara or Radiance of Yoga”, pp.76–77 in Masterpieces at the Jaipur Court, ed. Mrinalini Venkateswaran & Giles Tillotson. Delhi: Niyogi.
2021“Yoga: Haṭha” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, ed. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro. Wiley-Blackwell.
2020“The Amṛtasiddhi: Haṭhayoga’s Tantric Buddhist Source Text”, pp.409–425 in Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: A Festschrift for Alexis Sanderson, eds. Dominic Goodall, Shaman Hatley & Harunaga Isaacson. Leiden: Brill.
2020“Haṭhayoga’s early history: from sexual restraint in Vajrayāna to universal somatic soteriology”, pp.177–199 in A History of Hindu Practice, ed. Gavin Flood. Oxford: OUP.
2019“Kālavañcana in the Konkan: How a Vajrayāna Haṭhayoga Tradition Cheated Buddhism’s Death in India”, pp.1–33 in Religions 10, 273.
2018“Yoga and Sex: What is the Purpose of Vajrolīmudrā?”, pp.181–222 in Yoga in Transformation, ed. Philipp Maas & Karin Preisendanz. Vienna: V&R unipress.

Other publications by James Mallinson are available on academia.edu.

DR MARK SINGLETON
BOOKS
2025A Manual on the Practice of Haṭhayoga: An Edition and Translation of the Pune Manuscript of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati (co-authored with Jason Birch and James Mallinson). Pondicherry: IFP/EFEO.
2017Roots of Yoga (co-authored with James Mallinson). London: Penguin Classics.
ARTICLES
2020“Early Haṭha Yoga”, in Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, eds. Suzanne Newcombe & Karen O’Brien-Kop. Abingdon: Routledge.
2020“The Scholar-Practitioner of Yoga in the Western Academy” (with Borayin Larios), in Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, eds. Suzanne Newcombe & Karen O’Brien-Kop. Abingdon: Routledge.
2019“The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity” (with Jason Birch), pp.3–70 in Journal of Yoga Studies 2.
2017“The Spiritual Body in Twentieth-Century Yoga”, in proceedings of the international workshop, Kyoto University.
2017“David Frawley and Vedic Yoga”, in In the Name of the Veda. Abingdon: Routledge.
2016“Yoga and Physical Culture: Transnational History and Blurred Discursive Contexts”, pp.172–184 in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India, ed. Knut A. Jacobsen. Abingdon: Routledge.

Other publications by Mark Singleton are available on academia.edu.

DR DANIELA BEVILACQUA
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
Forthcoming“Sadhus' yoga: Soteriological and Pragmati Approaches among Indian Ascetics”. In Handbook of Contemporary Yoga, edited by Måns Broo. Brill.
Forthcoming“Living through mantras. The Use of Mantras Among Contemporary Hindu Ascetics”. Kervan.
2026“Sadhus.” Archive of Mystical Experiences. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School.
2025“Embodying sacred pain: Practice of austerities among Hindu ascetics”. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48(4), 804–823.
2025“Tapobhūmi: When Spiritual Power Saturates the Landscape”. Religions of South Asia 19.2 (2025) 203–225.
2022“Towards a Nath Re-appropriation of Hatha-Yoga”. In The Power of the Nath Yogis: Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority, edited by D. Bevilacqua, E. Stuparich, 281–306. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press.
2020“Globalization and Asceticism: Foreign Ascetics on the Threshold of Hindu Religious Orders”. In Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society, edited by J.S. Cornelio & F. Gautier, 199–211. Routledge.
2020“Observing Yoga: The Use of Ethnographic Methodologies to Develop Yoga Studies”. In Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, edited by Karen O’Brien Cop & Suzanne Newcombe, 393–408. United Kingdom: Routledge.
2018“Old Tool for New Times: The Discovery of an Ancient Holy Site in Contemporary India.” Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, v. 20: 45–66.
2017“Let the Sādhus Talk. Ascetic understanding of Haṭha Yoga and yogāsanas”, Religions of South Asia 11 (2-3): 182–206.
2017“Are women entitled to become ascetics? An historical and ethnographic glimpse on female asceticism in Hindu religions”. Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 21: 51–79.
BOOK
2024From Tapas to Modern Yoga. Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices. Equinox Publisher.
EDITED VOLUMES
2023“Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of South Asia, Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation.” Journal of Yoga Studies, vol. 4 (Special Issue). Edited with Mark Singleton.
2022The Power of the Nath Yogis: Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press. Edited with Eloisa Stuparich.
ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRY
2021“Lignées de yogis: la construction des identités (xvi-xviii siècle)”, 352–365; “Vivre en sadhu dans l’Inde contemporaine”, 589–607. In Yoga. L’encyclopedie, edited by Ysé Tardan-Macquelier. Paris: Les Editions Albin Michel.

Other publications by Daniela Bevilacqua are available on academia.edu.

DR S V B K V GUPTA
BOOK
Kāvyadarpaṇa of Rājacūdāmaṇidīkṣikta (I & IInd Ullāsa), Amazon.com (ISBN-10: 151941109X, ISBN-13: 978-1519411099)
ARTICLES
2016 Karaṇa-sampradāna-apādānānāṁ taddhitapradarśanam, International Journal of Indian Languages and Literature, Vol.1 Issue.2, PP. 102-106
2015  Śāstreṣu laukikanyāyāḥ, International Journal of Indian Languages and Literature, Vol.1 Issue.1, PP. 76-88.
2015 Saṁskṛtakāvyānaṁ vikāsaḥ, International journal of Sanskrit research, Vol. 1, Issue.4, Part.A, PP.108-109
2015 Paṇini’s influence on verbal cognition, International journal of Sanskrit research, Vol.1, Issue.4, Part A, PP. 110-113
2015 jānakīharaṇamahākāvyasya āvirbhāvaḥ, Gursārvabhaumaḥ, Vol.2 Issue.6, PP. 41-45
2011 Śābdabodha according to Paṇini’s Grammar (With special reference to Naiṣadīyacarita), The Journal of Sanskrit Academy, Volume XXI, PP.192-194