Raising Rajas in Hathayoga and Beyond
This article discusses the concept of rajas in the Hathayoga corpus and compares it with material in Ayurveda and Daoism. Rajas is the red blood of menstruation, female sexual fluid, and one aspect of a gendered binary with bindu or semen. In texts deriving from a male celibate context, rajas occurs...
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Equinox
2019
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 289–316 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hatha yoga
/ Yogini
/ Menstruation
/ Blood
/ Meditation
/ Amenorrhea
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Menstruation
B rajas B voluntary amenorrhea B Haṭhayoga B yogic body |
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