Light on Hatha Yoga: a critical edition and translation of the Hathapradipika, the most important premodern text on physical yoga.

哈他瑜伽之光：哈塔帕迪皮卡（Hatharadipika）的批评版本和翻译，哈他帕迪皮卡是关于身体瑜伽的最重要的前现代文本。

• 批准号: AH/V003275/2
• 负责人: William Mallinson
• 金额: $ 2.45万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV003275%2F2
• 关键词: Light; Hatha; Yoga; critical; edition

The primary outcome of this project will be a critical edition and annotated translation of the Hathapradipika or "Light on Hatha [Yoga]". This Sanskrit text has been the most influential text on physical yoga, both in India since its composition in about 1400 CE, and globally since yoga started to spread across the world in the late 19th century. The Light on Hatha has been translated hundreds of times into several languages, but these translations are unreliable because they are of based on nine or fewer of its more than 250 manuscripts, which present widely different versions of the text, ranging from three to ten chapters. A team of scholars will trace the Light on Hatha's transmission and publish it in a critical edition which will foreground an authoritative version of the most influential version of the text and detail all its variations. By thus mapping the transmission history of this text the project will document the premodern development of physical yoga from its origins in the early part of the second millennium CE as a method of mysticism practised by heterodox ascetics in India, to its early modern apotheosis as a somatic soteriology available to all, prefiguring its current phenomenal worldwide popularity as a means to wellness.Two key reasons for the Light on Hatha's not having been critically edited despite its great popularity are the large number of manuscripts in which it has been transmitted and the difficulty of its subject matter. The expertise of the project team mitigates both these problems. The team's members are all expert in editing Sanskrit texts from manuscripts, and the work of two of them, Mallinson and Birch, has focused on texts on physical yoga. Nearly half of the c. four hundred verses of the most influential recension of the Light on Hatha are drawn from earlier texts, the most important of which Mallinson and Birch have edited in their previous work. The team is thus uniquely positioned to produce a critical edition of the Light on Hatha.In addition to the Light on Hatha, the project team will produce editions of two other texts which are less well known but important for making sense of the history of yoga. These are: (1) the Yogalaksanavali, "The String of Signifiers of Yoga", an as yet unstudied treatise on yoga which was composed in 1549 CE and includes quotations from several texts, including many which were used in the composition of the Light on Hatha; and (2) the Tattvabinduyoga, "The Yoga of the Elemental Point", a 17th-century taxonomy of 15 different yoga methods, which includes hathayoga and is thus an early example of physical techniques being absorbed into mainstream yoga.

这个项目的主要成果将是《哈他瑜伽之光》（Hathapradipika）的批判版和注释翻译。这部梵文文本是对身体瑜伽最有影响力的文本，无论是在印度，还是在19世纪末瑜伽开始在世界各地传播以来，都是如此。《哈达之光》已被翻译成多种语言数百次，但这些翻译并不可靠，因为它们是基于250多份手稿中的9份或更少的版本，这些手稿呈现了文本的不同版本，从3章到10章不等。一组学者将追踪《关于哈达的光》的传播，并将其发表在一个批判版中，这将是最具影响力的文本版本的权威版本，并详细介绍其所有变体。通过绘制这一文本的传播历史，该项目将记录身体瑜伽的前现代发展，从公元第二个千年的早期开始，作为一种由印度异端苦行僧实践的神秘主义方法，到它作为一种可供所有人使用的躯体救赎学的早期现代神化，预示着它目前作为一种健康手段在全球范围内的流行。《哈塔之光》虽然很受欢迎，但却没有经过严格的编辑，两个关键原因是它传播的手稿数量众多，以及它的主题很困难。项目团队的专业知识减轻了这两个问题。该团队的成员都是编辑梵文手稿的专家，其中两人马林森和伯奇的工作重点是关于身体瑜伽的文本。《哈达之光》最具影响力的修订版中，大约400节经文中有近一半来自早期的文本，其中最重要的部分是马林森和伯奇在他们之前的工作中编辑过的。因此，该团队处于独特的位置，可以制作《哈达之光》的关键版本。除了《哈达之光》，项目团队还将制作另外两本不太为人所知但对理解瑜伽历史很重要的文本的版本。这些是：(1)Yogalaksanavali，“瑜伽的一系列能指”，这是一篇关于瑜伽的尚未研究的论文，写于公元1549年，包括从几个文本中引用的内容，其中包括许多在哈达之光的组成中使用的文本；(2)塔塔瓦班都瑜伽（tatvabinduyoga），即“元素点瑜伽”，这是17世纪对15种不同瑜伽方法的分类，其中包括哈塔瑜伽，因此是身体技巧被主流瑜伽吸收的早期例子。