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

这个项目的主要成果将是《哈他瑜伽之光》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200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，该版本将突出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，预示着它目前在全球范围内作为健康手段的惊人流行。

The primary outcome of this project will be a critical edition and annotated translation of the Hathapradipika or "Light onHatha [Yoga]". This Sanskrit text has been the most influential text on physical yoga, both in India since its composition inabout 1400 CE, and globally since yoga started to spread across the world in the late 19th century. The Light on Hatha hasbeen translated hundreds of times into several languages, but these translations are unreliable because they are of basedon nine or fewer of its more than 200 manuscripts, which present widely different versions of the text, ranging from three toten chapters. A team of scholars will trace the Light on Hatha's transmission and publish it in a critical edition which willforeground an authoritative version of the most influential version of the text and detail all its variations. By thus mappingthe transmission history of this text the project will document the premodern development of physical yoga from its originsin the early part of the second millennium CE as a method of mysticism practised by heterodox ascetics in India, to its earlymodern apotheosis as a somatic soteriology available to all prefiguring its current phenomenal worldwide popularity as ameans to wellness.