[Assam] Indology: Early Yogin

[umesh sharma]

Here is some comment by Harvard prof M. Witzel I just checked his bio http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ewitzel/mwcv.htm
 and am amazed to find that he never studied in India - only briefly in Nepal and all his education in Germany only. I am sure he means well but should someone who has a degree from India be the head of Indology -- in this world of globalization will that be diffciult to get. 

Maybe Michael should go to India and study under Indian gurus in Himalayas.

Any comments about "Yogins"

Umesh

Michael Witzel <witzel at fas.harvard.edu> wrote: CC: Michael Witzel <witzel at fas.harvard.edu>
To: Indo-Eurasian_research at yahoogroups.com
From: Michael Witzel <witzel at fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:59:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [Indo-Eurasia] Early Yogin

                                  Many thanks, John! The Sanchi Yogi with band around his raised knees 
 (yogapaTTa) was exactly the one i had in mind a few weeks months ago 
 (before your Sanchi trip),  when this first came up, -- though I had 
 seen only a drawing of it.
 
 Cheers,
 Michael
 
 On Aug 13, 2007, at 12:31 PM, John C. Huntington wrote:
 
 > A detailed image
 >
 > http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/DSC3144.detail.jpg
 >
 > shows the figure wearing a meditation band around his knees. This
 > device is still used to the present day by yogins who use this raised
 > knee position.
 
 >
 Michael Witzel
 Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
 1 Bow Street , 3rd floor, Cambridge MA 02138
 1-617-495 3295           Fax: 496 8571
 direct line:       496 2990
 <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm>
 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/>
 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/compmyth>
 <http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/> changed to:
 <http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/>
 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ejvs/ >
 
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