Yoga, Ascetics, Yogis, Sufis.
National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet| N° d'inventaire | 25297 |
| Format | 13.5 x 18 |
| Détails | 96 p., numerous illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711875559 |
Recurring figures in ancient India, yogis belong to a wide variety of backgrounds. Philosophers, mystics, and therapists, they are actors in a universe where shared concepts and practices circulate, and which develops a culture of meditation, renunciation, liberation, and the acquisition of supernatural powers.
Escaping the world and distancing oneself from society constitute an ideal that is expressed in the various religious movements of the subcontinent, in very varied forms. Brahmanism thus develops a discipline that is both mental and physical, which it calls yoga, and which offers a means of progressing on the difficult path to liberation.
Through some fifty works, some of which are among the oldest known pictorial representations of yogic postures, this work bears witness to the many faces of Indian asceticism.
Recurring figures in ancient India, yogis belong to a wide variety of backgrounds. Philosophers, mystics, and therapists, they are actors in a universe where shared concepts and practices circulate, and which develops a culture of meditation, renunciation, liberation, and the acquisition of supernatural powers.
Escaping the world and distancing oneself from society constitute an ideal that is expressed in the various religious movements of the subcontinent, in very varied forms. Brahmanism thus develops a discipline that is both mental and physical, which it calls yoga, and which offers a means of progressing on the difficult path to liberation.
Through some fifty works, some of which are among the oldest known pictorial representations of yogic postures, this work bears witness to the many faces of Indian asceticism.