James Mallinson on “Tantric Traditions and Haṭhayoga”
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- Professor James Mallinson is Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Classical and Indian Studies at SOAS, University of London. His interest in yoga grew out of a fascination for India and Indian asceticism - he spent several years living with Indian ascetics and yogis, in particular Rāmānandī Tyāgīs, and in 2013 he was honored with the title of ‘mahant’ by the Ramanandi Sampradaya.
He took his BA in Sanskrit and Old Iranian at the University of Oxford, followed by an MA in Area Studies (South Asia), with Ethnography as his main subject, at SOAS. His doctoral thesis, submitted to the University of Oxford, was a critical edition and annotated translation of the Khecarīvidyā, an early text of Haṭhayoga. Dr Mallinson has published eight books, all of which are editions and translations of Sanskrit yoga texts, epic tales and poetry. His recent book, written in collaboration with Professor Mark Singleton, is Roots of Yoga, a 500-page translation of a selection of the essential texts on yoga from India. Currently, Professor Mallinson is leading, with Professor Singleton, an ERC - funded research project on the history of Haṭhayoga which will result in ten critical editions and translations of key yoga texts, four monographs and two large conferences.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Brown University
Thank you. What a wonderful, concise lecture to reinforce and clarify my own readings . Lovely!
This is a wonderful lecture, thank you for uploading!!!
What an incredibly interesting and informative lecture! Thank you for posting it on CZcams.
Great lecture, so informative !! Thanks so much
i spent years with the idea..externally informed , that practicing Tibetan Vajrayana/Tantra and Hatha Yoga were 2 distinct traditions and was early on advised not to mix traditions. I have practiced both and mixed them ! experiencing only enhancement and no inner conflict. So interesting to hear here of some of the earliest known texts associated with Hatha Yoga and their roots in Buddhist Tantra.
Things got written down at the time of the emergence of the monasteries. The monastic centres organised , systematised and controlled practices. There is a strong theme of the control of male sexual energy. Celibacy, asceticism. The dangers of the enticing feminine ! Hence we hear almost exclusively of yoga as relating to the male in these texts.
How wonderful that this resulted in the writing down of things but how important to realise that this process of writing things down changes or distorts the content. It selects out what does not serve the current system or hierarchy.
It feels to me that we can only know all that has never been written down through our own direct practice, somehow this brings us to the inner knowing. What has been written will be so helpful too, but ultimately we go beyond this and off the map into the territory.
The part towards the end of the talk on the Raja Yogi/King is interesting with its parallels with the Crazy Wisdom Yogi and the knife edge that stands between liberation that is beyond duality (dualistic morality) and the corruption that can arise from the misuse of power.
Thanks James, much appreciation for your work as a yogi- academic.
Buddhist Tantra itself has its root in Hindu Shaiva tantra. Maybe you missed that when he talks about it in the start of the lecture. Shiva and Devi are the root of Yoga and Tantra. Not that Buddha who laughably propagated celibacy.
@@aghorav8255 Buddha is not even a historical person, there is no such person as a historical figure that was called siddharta and made a separate path from Vedic seers, its pravachan katha, or wisdom story, there is no such thing as Hindu or Buddhist , they are just outward labels. Dharma is held for them whom it chooses and is not stuck in labels
@youcometome9 Who is getting to drawn in by European Scholars. Buddha is the awakened citta and what wakes up the citta. The story of siddharta is not historical, its timeless and a cosmic tale, pravachana katha of nath sampradaya
I would very much like to know the benefits you've experienced after practicing them. Thank you.🙏
@@markandeyadasa3728 Buddha is not a historical figure? I'm so sorry to hear this. I suggest you do a little research. Namaste 🙏
Enlightening. Interesting.
Amazing lecture..
You are doing very good on hathyoga thank you for that
Starts at 6:01
wonderful
Thank you
Where is the second day lecture video? James Mallinson talks in this video about doing a second lecture the next day and going deeper - where is it?
did you find it?
Im interested too...
Did anyone find it!?
Enjoyed this lecture immensely. Thank you. It is so very fascinating. Please post more of your lectures.
this guy is a legend.
Great book James, really helped me with my own sufi practises. 🙏
Look forward to meeting James.
❤️❤️🙏🙏❤️❤️
I watched this documentary with him and Dominic West. I watched his familiarity and interactions with the sadhus. what a way to repay the civilisation that welcomed you as one of their own.
India made 'Sir' James Mallinson, a Mahant. He was showered with garlands, love and had his feet touched. He went on to get $5m to trace the roots of hatha yoga from the EU. And what did he give back to India? A signature in support of the Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference
He is cheater like other britisher looter
@@nitinbull8720. Hey, dude, you need to elucidate the facts, or cite references, that allow you to put the guy down, otherwise it’s only your silly fake news. Shouldn’t you know that?
@@aniketsatpute2389 it is. At least modern yoga in the west
The only critiques I see on James's videos are nationalists in denial who cannot for the love of god elaborate a proper argument or cite sources for what they're saying.
If mahant is here what abt his akhada then?
Good professor and Mahanh ji, Nice research, I think experience is different than written text. But your face is telling that you are innocent by your heart. Good referencing and contextualize presentation. No problem, inapite some error, but you are dealing with Large subject area. No holistic presentation is possible on such issue. Good job. Compilation of various text. 64 Yogini temple is an example of women's participation, even Kamakhya temple in Guwahati and Tarapith in West Bengal is famous tantrik site. Where you can see many women, even the man who practice tantric tradition, they chant many women goddesses such as Mata Bagalamukhi. There are several examples. Good work.
Is there any equivalent to bindu that a woman can help cultivate? Can a women also raise precious bodily fluids to the head? I would hope such an imporant part of hatha yoga practise would be accesible to women as well.
His understanding is completely lacking. Do not seek "bodily energies", or understand anything as exclusive to man. That's external understanding. Go beyond this illusions. The whole tantric tradition is metaphorical.
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r u smoking chillum in UK James ?
So far western Gujarat on the border with India 21.45 . Gujarat is in India and the western part too.
Since you are not a Hindu James what is your religion?
Buddhism comes from oldest religion sanatan darma (now you guys were calling it Hinduism) it’s a way of life.
Please don’t tell your fictions if you don’t know.
I don’t trust foreigners, they always misguide Hinduism and India.
what according to you is hinduism? what does hindu mean?
Although I do not think he understood how misleading his lecture might be because he is talking about tantra in literal terms, I do not think he is forging historical data.
Mostly incorrect translations. I have read his Amritasiddhi text, and his translations are funny, not only erroneous. My apologies, Mr Mallinson, but you have not done any justice at all to the text.
Haha, he is a PhD and Sanskrit translator, has lived for years in India with yogis and ascetics and clearly does extensive primary and secondary research … what are all the “incorrect translations” and how did you come to that conclusion?
The woman in the audience is self apologetically asking ' not many women' etc. Obviously she has not read abt Parvati's penance or ubhaya bharati and sankara or krishnamacharya's wife who was a yoga practitioner.
Hopefully the speaker will point out that today's "yoga" is totally false.
His description of yoga in this lecture is also absolutely misleading, although he is quoting directly from the authoritative texts. Undestanding that sandhya basha texts are not supposed to be taken literally is paramount.
@@dimasgomez perhaps to him this assertion should already be presumed by audience considering such topics directly discussed, it seems your own bias causes you to jump right into the assumption of him not possibly comprehending what he’s reading or talking and so forth, though obviously much could be propounded upon this is a very simple lecture to an immature western audience
Umm…there was no one alive when Jesus was claiming to be Christian. Jesus wasn’t Christian.
Hinduism is not a religion. Its like way of dicovering your ownself. Even vedas are just part of hinduism which were written 5000-8000 years back. The work on vedas is old as 15000 years. So its not easy to understand the things. Budda did study from several years from indian gurus and then meditated and got bodhitva. Several practices are there like hath yoga ,tantra, mantra,yantra,samdhi,dyan, aghor,vipasyana,for reaching several objectives. There is no authorr of hinduism unlike bible and quran or buddhisim.
Its Just like physic.
James, Your remark about Sri Krishna showed a very low intellectual understanding of the Sanatan Dharma, aka Hindu Dharma! Ask British Museum to return all stolen original Hindu religious scriptures and manuscripts back to India! Those are belongs to Indian heritage of knowledge system!