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By David Gordon White (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780691140858 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 31, 2011, cover price $85.00

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9780691140865 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 31, 2011, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize...read more
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Hardcover:

9780226895130 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 2009), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged.

Paperback:

9780226895147 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 30, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged.

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9780757567872 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, September 25, 2009, cover price $68.73
9780757528873 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, December 30, 2006, cover price $57.35

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Product Description: In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century...read more
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9780691142036 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 6, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga.

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Product Description: For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day...read more
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9780226894836, titled "Kiss of the Yogini: Tantric Sex in Its South Asian Contexts" | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none.

Paperback:

9780226894843, titled "Kiss of the Yogini: Tantric Sex in Its South Asian Contexts" | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 15, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none.

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Product Description: As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, ranging from the seventh century to the present day, and representing the full range of Tantric experience--Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and even Islamic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David Gordon White (editor)
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9780691057781 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways.

Paperback:

9780691057798 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 26, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways.

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Product Description: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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Hardcover:

9780226885681 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank .

Paperback:

9780226885698 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank .

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Product Description: The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by one and the same people, and that they can be understood only when viewed together...read more
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Hardcover:

9780226894973 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas.

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9780226894997 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas.

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Product Description: "An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields. . . . Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely well-documented, it covers (among much else) the following: medieval Christian legends such as the 14th-century Ethiopian Gadla Hawaryat (Contendings of the Apostles) that had their roots in Parthian Gnosticism and Manichaeism; dog-stars (especially Sirius), dog-days, and canine psychopomps in the ancient and Hellenistic world; the cynocephalic hordes of the ancient geographers; the legend of Prester John; Visvamitra and the Svapacas ("Dog-Cookers"); the Dog Rong ("warlike barbarians") during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods; the nochoy ghajar (Mongolian for "Dog Country") of the Khitans; the Panju myth of the Southern Man and Yao "barbarians" from chapter 116 of the History of the Latter Han and variants in a series of later texts; and the importance of dogs in ancient Chinese burial rites...read more
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9780226895086 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 7, 1991, cover price $87.50 | About this edition: "An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields.

Paperback:

9780226895093 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 7, 1991, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: "An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields.

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