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Ashtanga Yoga is a method of yoga that allegedly has its historic routes in an ancient manuscript. This script is known as the Yoga Korunta, which was created by the Sage Vamana Rishi. Its current form was developed by Sri K. Pattabhi.
Yoga is intimately connected to the religious beliefs and practices of the Indian religions.[52] The influence of Yoga is also visible in Buddhism, which is distinguished by its austerities, spiritual exercises, and trance states.[53][54]
[edit] Yogacara BuddhismYogacara (Sanskrit: “Practice of Yoga [Union]”[55] ), also spelled yogāchāra, is a school of philosophy and psychology that developed in India during the 4th to 5th centuries.
Yogacara received the name as it provided a yoga, a framework for engaging in the practices that lead to the path of the bodhisattva.[56] The Yogacara sect teaches yoga in order to reach enlightenment.[57]
[edit] Ch`an (Zen) BuddhismZen (the name of which derives from the Sanskrit “dhyana” via the Chinese “ch’an”[58]) is a form of Mahayana Buddhism. The Mahayana school of Buddhism is noted for its proximity with Yoga.[54] In the west, Zen is often set alongside Yoga; the two schools of meditation display obvious family resemblances.[59] This phenomenon merits special attention since the Zen Buddhist school of meditation has some of its roots in yogic practices.[60] Certain essential elements of Yoga are important both for Buddhism in general and for Zen in particular.[3]
[edit] Tibetan BuddhismYoga is central to Tibetan Buddhism. In the Nyingma tradition, practitioners progress to increasingly profound levels of yoga, starting with Mahā yoga, continuing to Anu yoga and ultimately undertaking the highest practice, Ati yoga. In the Sarma traditions, the Anuttara yoga class is equivalent. Other tantra yoga practices include a system of 108 bodily postures practiced with breath and heart rhythm. Timing in movement exercises is known as Trul khor or union of moon and sun (channel) prajna energies. The body postures of Tibetan ancient yogis are depicted on the walls of the Dalai Lama’s summer temple of Lukhang. A semi-popular account of Tibetan Yoga by Chang (1993) refers to Dumo, the generation of heat in one’s own body, as being “the very foundation of the whole of Tibetan Yoga” (Chang, 1993, p7). Chang also claims that Tibetan Yoga involves reconciliation of apparent polarities, such as prana and mind, relating this to theoretical implications of tantrism.
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