PUBLICATIONS

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Books and Scholarly Publications

A Manual on the Practice of Haṭhayoga: An Edition and Translation of the Pune Manuscript of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati

Birch, Jason, Mark Singleton and Jim Mallinson. 2025. Pondicherry: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry.

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Haṭhapradīpikā – Digital Edition

Birch, Jason, Mitsuyo Demoto, Jürgen Hanneder, Nils Jacob Liersch and James Mallinson. 2024.

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Printed edition due December 2026.

Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice

Birch, Jason. 2024. Pondicherry: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry.

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The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga

Birch, Jason. 2024. Pondicherry: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry.

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On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Recension of the Suśrutasaṃhitā

Wujastyk, Dominik, Jason Birch, Andrey Klebanov, Madhu K. Parameswaran, Madhusudan Rimal, Deepro Chakraborty, Harshal Bhatt, Vandana Lele, and Paras Mehta. 2023. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing.

DOI: 10.11588/hasp.1203

Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of South Asia: Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation

Birch, Jason and Jacqueline Hargreaves. 2023. “Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Yoga Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism.” Journal of Yoga Studies (Special Issue): 31–82.

DOI: 10.34000/JoYS.2023.V4.01

The [Oxford] History of Hinduism, Hindu Practice

Birch, Jason. 2020. “The Quest for Liberation-in-Life. A Survey of Early Haṭha and Rāja Yoga.” Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 8: 200–242.

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198733508.003.0009.

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Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions. Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson

Birch, Jason. 2020. “Haṭhayoga’s Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism.” Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Chapter 19: 451–479.

DOI: 10.1163/9789004432802_021

Journal of Yoga Studies

Birch, Jason and Mark Singleton, 2019. “The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity.” Journal of Yoga Studies, Vol. 2 (2019): 3–70.

DOI: 10.34000/JoYS.2019.V2.002

Journal of Indian Philosophy

Birch, Jason. 2019. “The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga.” Journal of Indian Philosophy, 47 (2019): 947–977. Springer.

DOI: 10.1007/s10781-019-09401-5

Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Birch, Jason. 2018 (submitted 2013). “The Proliferation of Āsana-s in Late Mediaeval Yoga Texts.” Vienna: V&R Vienna University Press. Chapter 3: 101–180.

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History of Science in South Asia

Birch, Jason. 2018. “Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda: Preliminary Remarks on Shared Terminology, Theory and Praxis.” History of Science in South Asia, Vol. 6 (April): 1–83.

DOI: 10.18732/hssa.v6i0.25

International Journal of Hindu Studies

Birch, Jason. 2013. “Rājayoga: The Reincarnations of the King of all Yogas.” International Journal of Hindu Studies, (December) 17.3 (2013): 399–442.

DOI: 10.1007/s11407-014-9146-x

Journal of the American Oriental Society

Birch, Jason. 2011. “The Meaning of Haṭha in Early Haṭhayoga.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, (December) 131.4 (2011): 527–554.

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Yoga in Practice

Quanström, Olle and Jason Birch. 2011. “Universalist and Missionary Jainism: Jain Yoga of the Terapanthi Tradition.” Oxford: Princeton University Press. Chapter 21: 365–382.

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Magazine Articles

The Yoga Bridge

Hargreaves, Jacqueline. 2018. “The Yogapradīpa: A Pre-Modern Jain “Light on Yoga”” The Yoga Bridge, 18, 1: 7–10.

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Viveka Hefte für Yoga

An interview with Jason Birch. 2017. “The Hatha Yoga Project.” Viveka Hefte für Yoga, 57 (December 2017): 6–27.

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Yoga Scotland Magazine

Birch, Jason and Jacqueline Hargreaves. 2016. “The Yamas and Niyamas: Medieval and Modern Views.” Yoga Scotland Magazine, Issue 50 (May 2016).

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Yoga Scotland Magazine

Birch, Jason and Jacqueline Hargreaves. 2016. “The Yamas and Niyamas: Patanjali's View.” Yoga Scotland Magazine, Issue 29 (January 2016).

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Nāmarūpa Magazine

Birch, Jason. 2015. “The Yogatārāvali and the Hidden History of Yoga.” Nāmarūpa Magazine, Issue 20 (Spring 2015).

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Forthcoming Publications

2027

The Yogabīja: The Seed of Yoga

Birch, Jason. 2027. Paris, Pondicherry: École française d'Extrême-Orient.

TBA

The Amanaska: King of all Yogas. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation along with a Monographic Introduction

Birch, Jason. 2013. Doctoral Thesis. Oxford University (2013).