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“Hatha [瑜伽]之光”的批判性版本和注释翻译。这部梵文文献自其于公元 1400 年左右撰写以来一直是印度最具影响力的体育瑜伽文献，自 19 世纪末瑜伽开始在世界各地传播以来在全球范围内都是如此。 《哈他之光》已被翻译成多种语言数百次，但这些翻译并不可靠，因为它们是基于其 250 多份手稿中的 9 份或更少，而这些手稿呈现的文本版本差异很大，从三章到十章不等。一组学者将追踪哈达传播的光明，并将其出版为批评版本，该版本将突出该文本最有影响力版本的权威版本，并详细介绍其所有变体。通过绘制本文的传播历史，该项目将记录物理瑜伽的前现代发展，从公元第二个千年初期作为印度异端苦行者实践的神秘主义方法的起源，到其早期现代神化作为所有人都可以使用的身体救世论，预示着其目前作为一种健康手段在全球范围内的惊人流行。《哈他之光》尽管非常受欢迎，但没有被严格编辑的两个关键原因是：它所传播的手稿数量之大及其主题的难度。项目团队的专业知识可以缓解这两个问题。该团队的成员都是根据手稿编辑梵文文本的专家，其中两人马林森和伯奇的工作重点是有关身体瑜伽的文本。近一半的c。 《哈他之光》最有影响力的修订本中有四百节经文取自早期的文本，其中最重要的文本是马林森和伯奇在他们之前的作品中编辑过的。因此，该团队处于独特的地位，可以制作《哈达之光》的批评版本。除了《哈达之光》之外，项目团队还将制作另外两本不太为人所知但对于理解瑜伽历史很重要的文本的版本。它们是：(1) Yogalaksanavali，《瑜伽的一系列能指》，一部尚未被研究的瑜伽专着，写于公元 1549 年，其中引用了多处文本，包括许多在《哈他之光》的写作中使用的内容； (2) Tattvabinduyoga，“元素点瑜伽”，17 世纪对 15 种不同瑜伽方法的分类，其中包括哈他瑜伽，因此是物理技术被主流瑜伽吸收的早期例子。

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.