Review of The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography, by David Gordon White [Book Review]

Philosophy East and West 66 (3):1043-1048 (2016)
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Abstract

In this short review, I provide a philosopher's assessment of White's book. It claims to be a study of the life of the Yoga Sutra, but is rather an account of secondary opinions, as though that amounts to the same thing as an account of the Yoga Sutra.

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