Art History

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Nāga, Siddha and Sage: Visions of Patañjali as an Authority on Yoga

Chapter from Yoga In Transformation

 2018 gudrun-buhnemann art-history art-history
Eighty-four Asanas in Yoga: A Survey of Traditions (with Illustrations)

Eighty-four Asanas in Yoga: A Survey of Traditions (with Illustrations)

 2007 gudrun-buhnemann art-history art-history indology
On ‘meditational art’ and maṇḍalas as objects of meditation

Chapter from Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

 2021 gudrun-buhnemann art-history art-history
The Identification of an Illustrated Haṭhayoga Manuscript and Its Significance for Traditions of 84 Āsanas in Yoga

This article identifies an illustrated Harhayoga manuscript preserved in the British Library (London) and discusses the manuscript’s significance in the context of traditions of 84 postures (asana) in Yoga

 84 MB 2007 , gudrun-buhnemann art-history india-art-history asana ha%e1%b9%adhayoga mudra siddhas yoga-postures
Cinmudrā: Origins, Evolution and Meaning

This paper examines cinmudrā, the practice of joining the index finger and thumb together, adopted throughout the 20th century in seated postures such as padmāsana to facilitate the practice of meditation or prāṇāyāma

 2025 , shamita-ray art-history india-art-history cinmudra hand-gesture ha%e1%b9%adhayoga jnanamudra meditation modern-postural-yoga mudra pra%e1%b9%87ayama
Etched in Stone: Sixteenth-century Visual and Material Evidence of Śaiva Ascetics and Yogis in Complex Non-seated Āsanas at Vijayanagara

This article reassesses the history of postural yoga in precolonial India by drawing attention to recently discovered visual material evidence of non-seated postures carved onto the pillars of Vijayanagara temples at Hampi in Karnataka

 2018 seth-powell art-history asana ha%e1%b9%adhayoga medieval-yoga natha-yogis saiva-ascetics vijayanagara
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