The Yogīs’ Latest Trick 1
@article{Mallinson2013TheYL, title={The Yogīs’ Latest Trick 1}, author={James Mallinson}, journal={Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society}, year={2013}, volume={24}, pages={165 - 180} }
David Gordon White's wide-ranging scholarship on tantra, yoga and alchemy has inspired many students and scholars to undertake research in those fields. White worked as an assistant to Mircea Eliade and his doctorate from the University of Chicago was in History of Religions. His research methodology, true to this scholastic heritage, is not as deeply rooted in textual criticism as that of the current vanguard of scholars working on tantra and yoga, whose philological studies rarely reference…
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