David Gordon White

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David Gordon White

Religious Studies

#98

World Rank

#257

Historical Rank

#42

USA Rank

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Religious Studies

David Gordon White's Degrees

PhD Religious Studies University of Chicago
Masters Religious Studies University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, David Gordon White is an American Indologist and author on the history of yoga and tantra. He won the CHOICE book selection in religion, and an honorable mention in the PROSE book awards, both for Sinister Yogis.

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David Gordon White's Published Works

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Published Works

Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts (2003) (92)
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India (1996) (72)
Myths of the dog-man (1991) (64)
DIGGING WELLS WHILE HOUSES BURN? WRITING HISTORIES OF HINDUISM IN A TIME OF IDENTITY POLITICS (2006) (46)
Yoga in practice (2012) (43)
The Politics of Hsia-hsiang Youth (1974) (40)
Tantra in Practice (2013) (32)
Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India (1999) (28)
Yoga, Brief History of an idea (2011) (26)
Transformations in the Art of Love: Kāmakalā Practices in Hindu Tantric and Kaula Traditions (1998) (17)
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography (2014) (12)
Yoga : the art of transformation (2013) (11)
Tantra in Practice: Mapping a Tradition (2000) (8)
INTRODUCTION Tantra in Practice: Mapping a Tradition (2000) (8)
Netra Tantra at the Crossroads of the Demonological Cosmopolis (2012) (8)
The "Yoga Sutra of Patanjali": A Biography: A Biography (2014) (8)
THE SCHOLAR AS MYTHOGRAPHER:: Comparative Indo-European Myth and Postmodern Concerns (2000) (7)
A Dictionary of Technical Terms from Hindu Tantric Literature (2007) (7)
"Dakkhiṇa" and "Agnicayana": An Extended Application of Paul Mus's Typology (1986) (6)
̒Open̓ and ̒Closed̓ Models of the Human Body in Indian Medical and Yogic Traditions (2006) (6)
How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See? (2011) (5)
YOGA IN EARLY HINDU TANTRA (2003) (4)
Yogic Rays: The Self-Externalization of the Yogi in Ritual, Narrative and Philosophy (2009) (3)
Mountains of wisdom: On the interface between Siddha and Vidyādhara cults and the Siddha orders in medieval India (1997) (3)
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Through the Eyes of a Visiting Sinologist (1975) (3)
Book Review:Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship Bruce Lincoln (2001) (2)
Predicting the Future with Dogs (2020) (2)
The Nature of Grounding (2017) (2)
Early Understandings of Yoga in the Light of Three Aphorisms from the Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali (2003) (2)
Kiss of the Yoginī: “Tantric Sex” in South Asian Contexts (2003) (1)
Introduction: Yoga, Brief History of an Idea (2011) (1)
The "Yoga Sutra of Patanjali" (2014) (1)
The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata, Vol. II: The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals of the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, 21, and 45. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation (2018) (1)
Farewell to food (1994) (0)
Goddesses of Power (2004) (0)
Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy. Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Traditions (2018) (0)
2. Categories of Indian Thought: The Universe by Numbers (2019) (0)
Chapter 6. The Yoga of the Magnetosphere: The Yoga Sutra and the Theosophical Society (2014) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1989) (0)
The Wonders of Śrī Mastnāth (2020) (0)
Monastic Wanderers: Nath Yogi Ascetics in Modern South Asia (2018) (0)
Chapter 10. Ishvara (2014) (0)
6. Tantra in the Rasārṇava (2019) (0)
7. Corresponding Hierarchies: The Substance of the Alchemical Body (2019) (0)
Franco, Eli, and Dagmar Eigner, Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness (2011) (0)
Gordon White : Tantra in Practice (2000) (0)
Chapter 13. Yoga Sutra 2.0 (2014) (0)
3. The Prehistory of Tantric Alchemy (2019) (0)
Epilogue. The Siddha Legacy in Modern India (2019) (0)
Mughal, Modern, and Postmodern Yogis (2009) (0)
Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata, vol. 1: Chapters 1–2, 39–40, & 83: Revelation, Ritual, and Material Culture in an Early Śaiva Tantra. By Shaman Hatley (2021) (0)
Book Review:The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig Claudine Fabre-Vassas (1999) (0)
Suggestions for Further Reading (2014) (0)
Chapter 4. Yoga Sutra Agonistes: Hegel and the German Romantics (2014) (0)
Chapter 5. Rajendralal Mitra: India’s Forgotten Pioneer of Yoga Sutra Scholarship (2014) (0)
Chapter 12. The Strange Case of T. M. Krishnamacharya (2014) (0)
Chapter 7. Swami Vivekananda and the Mainstreaming of the Yoga Sutra (2014) (0)
Oxfam Zimbabwe Campaign: Oxfam see for yourself (2012) (0)
Epilogue: The Way Forward (2020) (0)
3. Embodied Ascent, Meditation, and Yogic Suicide (2019) (0)
Chapter 9. The Yoga Sutra Becomes a Classic (2014) (0)
The Mystery of Numbers. Annemarie Schimmel (1995) (0)
5. Yogi Gods (2019) (0)
1. Indian Paths to Immortality (2019) (0)
Chapter Two Reflections on the Royal Unction Waters (2022) (0)
JAS volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2000) (0)
Variations on the Indo-European “Fire and Water” Mytheme in Three Alchemical Accounts (2017) (0)
Embodied Ascent, Meditation, & Yogic Suicide (2009) (0)
Note for Instructors (2011) (0)
Chapter 2. Patanjali, the Yoga Sutra, and Indian Philosophy (2014) (0)
Chapter 11. Journeys East, Journeys West: The Yoga Sutra in the Early Twentieth Century (2014) (0)
Yoga practices in the Bhagavadgita (2012) (0)
OF YOGINIS AND TANTRIKSTERS : DONIGER ON WHITE ' S TANTRIC S E X-REFLECTIONS IN THE SOUTH ASIAN CONTEXT (0)
Recipes for Immortality: Medicine, Religion, and Community in South India. By Richard S. Weiss. (2009) (0)
4. The Science of Entering Another Body (2019) (0)
The Ocean of Mercury: (2020) (0)
8. Homologous Structures of the Alchemical Body (2019) (0)
5. Tantric and Siddha Alchemical Literature (2019) (0)
Chapter 8. The Yoga Sutra in the Muslim World (2014) (0)
Note on Transliteration (2019) (0)
Chapter 1. Reading the Yoga Sutra in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Challenges, Ancient Strategies (2014) (0)
Tales of Sinister Yogis (2009) (0)
4. Sources for the History of Tantric Alchemy in India (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion David Shulman (1994) (0)
Chapter 3. Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the Western “Discovery” of the Yoga Sutra (2014) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1987) (0)

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