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Friday, August 5th, 2016
Deuxièmement, nous ne connaissons ni l'endroit où le prophète est né, ni la région dans laquelle il était actif. Selon les sources, il a passé un peu de sa vie en exil, mais évidemment nous ne connaissons ni sa patrie ni son lieu d'exil. Si toutefois on accepte que les ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2016
Tout le monde connaît les trois grandes religions dont les origines sont dans le Proche-Orient: c'est à dire le judaïsme, le christianisme, et l'islam. Mais il y avait une autre religion, à l'époque aussi importante que celles-ci, qui toutefois est maintenant peu connue. La religion dont je parle est le ...
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Friday, December 26th, 2014
Retention of bindu
In its earliest formulations, hatHa was used to raise and conserve the physical essence of life, identified in men as bindu (semen), which is otherwise constantly dripping downward from a store in the head and being expended. (The female equivalent, mentioned only occasionally in our sources, is rajas, ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2014
The mudras (seals) of the Hathayogapradipika compiled by Svatmaraman about 1450 AD, are not original to that work, but are also to be found in the following works which predate the HYP.
(A1) Amrtasiddhi – 11th C
(D) Dattatreyayogasastra – 13th C
(V) Vivekamartanda – 13th C
(G) Goraksasataka – 13th C
(K) Khecarividya – ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
The history of the specifically postural yoga that is the root of the yogas that are practiced in the modern West is not well known. We know that most forms of current Western practice can be traced back to the teachers Vivekananda, Yogananda, Sivananda, Kuvalayananda, Hariharananda, Krishnamacharya, and a few ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2014
I knew that Frazer’s claim in his Golden Bough of a widespread myth of a dying and resurrected god had been heavily discounted amongst later researchers, but I still thought that the general template he presented was applicable to a significant number of myths, and not just around the Mediterranean. ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
There is a question whether Yoga is necessarily a religion or whether it is possible to be a practitioner and remain, for example, a good Christian. Now, ‘Yoga’ is the name of a wide variety of beliefs and practices – we might compare it to the Dao of the classical ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2014
When the Dharma is forgotten in the world another Buddha arises to renew it. The earliest version seems to have 7 buddhas in this age, of whom gOtama is the current. These are mentioned in the Pali canon in the dIghanikAya (ii, pp 5ff) and sa~yuttanikAya (ii, pp. 5f) of ...
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Sunday, January 19th, 2014
In the course of researching the Samkhya cosmogony, I noticed that the diagrams indicate a great variety of interpretations. I thought it would be interesting to display them here.
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Sunday, March 18th, 2012
The Gospel of Mary, recovered in fragments in Greek (Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, Rylands III 463) and Coptic (BG 8502) is part of the Nag Hammadi Library (Robinson, J.M. (1990 revd. edn.) NHL, Harper Collins, pp. 523-7. Intro: K. King, tr: G. W. MacRae & R. McL. Wilson) and is generally ...
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