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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 2. Is Yoga a Philosophy?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46344

Blurb:

We do not have to choose between the categories of philosophy and religion; yoga can simply belong to both. Specifically, yoga is found in the first systematised philosophy in South Asia, which was established between circa 2nd-century BCE and 2nd-century CE through formal treatises called śāstras and their concise distillations, sūtras.

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