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

该项目的主要成果将是Hathapradipika或“哈达之光[瑜伽]”的关键版本和注释翻译。这本梵文文本一直是对身体瑜伽最有影响力的文本，无论是在印度，因为它的组成约1400年，并在全球范围内，因为瑜伽开始传播到世界各地的世纪后期。《哈达之光》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，这些手稿呈现了文本的广泛不同版本，从三到十章不等。一组学者将追踪哈他传播的光，并将其出版在一个关键版本中，该版本将突出文本最有影响力的版本的权威版本，并详细说明其所有变体。通过绘制这部文本的传播历史，该项目将记录身体瑜伽的前现代发展，从公元第二个千年早期的起源，作为印度非正统禁欲主义者实践的神秘主义方法，到现代早期的神化，作为所有人都可以使用的身体救赎学，预示着它目前在世界范围内的惊人流行作为一种健康的手段。两个关键的原因，哈塔之光没有被严格编辑，尽管它的巨大人气是大量的手稿中，它已被传送和其主题的困难。项目团队的专业知识缓解了这两个问题。该团队的成员都是从手稿中编辑梵文文本的专家，其中两人，马林森和伯奇的工作主要集中在身体瑜伽的文本上。近一半的C。最有影响力的《哈达之光》校订中的400节经文是从早期的文本中摘录的，其中最重要的是马林森和伯奇在他们以前的作品中编辑的。因此，该团队在制作《哈达之光》的评论版方面处于独特的地位。除了《哈达之光》之外，项目团队还将制作另外两个版本的文本，这两个文本不太为人所知，但对于理解瑜伽的历史非常重要。这些是：（1）Yogalaksanavali，“The String of Signifiers of Yoga”，这是一部尚未被研究过的瑜伽专著，创作于公元1549年，引用了几篇文献，其中许多文献被用于创作《哈达之光》;和（2）Tattvabinduyoga，“元素点的瑜伽”，17世纪分类的15种不同的瑜伽方法，其中包括哈他瑜伽，因此是身体技术被吸收到主流瑜伽的早期例子。

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.