[INDOLOGY] question about a Jaina practice

[Madhav Deshpande]

Is there any pictorial description/representation of these assisting
devices in iconography or Jain/Buddhist/Hindu Yoga practice?

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:52 AM Rupert Gethin via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Since it is appears not to be mentioned in the article cited by Lubomir or
> in Philipp’s article (forgive me if I have missed it), it is perhaps worth
> adding that this kind of strap is also mentioned in Pali sources where it
> is called āyogapaṭṭa. In the Visuddhimagga Buddhaghosa describes the
>  ’sitter’s practice’ (nesajjikaṅga), the last in the list of 13 ascetic
> practices, as follows:
>
> 'This has three grades too. Herein, one who is strict is not allowed a
> back-rest or cloth band or binding-strap (āyogapaṭṭa). The medium one is
> allowed any one of these three. The mild one is allowed a back-rest, a
> cloth band, a binding-strap, a cushion, a “five-limb” and a “seven-limb"
> [chair].’ (After Ñāṇamoli, Path of Purification, II.74)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rupert
> --
> *Rupert Gethin*
>
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> On 3 Oct 2019, at 16:39, Philipp Maas via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Dear Herman,
> Further textual references to the use of a yoga strap in yoga literature
> can be found on p. 71 of my article "'Sthirasukham Āsanam': Posture and
> Performance in Classical Yoga and Beyond", which you find published in
> open-access here
> <https://www.academia.edu/32024344/_Sthirasukham_%C4%80sanam_Posture_and_Performance_in_Classical_Yoga_and_Beyond>
> .
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Philipp
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> Am Do., 3. Okt. 2019 um 16:10 Uhr schrieb Tieken, H.J.H. via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info>:
>
>> Dear List members,
>>
>> Jaina monks, or their followers, are often depicted sitting with a strap
>> going around their bodies and legs. (a few years ago I saw this contraption
>> in a posh interior decorating shop in Leiden as an alternative chair!)
>> Could anyone tell me if this strap, or sitting supported by this strap, had
>> a (Sanskrit, MIA or NIA) name. By the way, it is not a particular Jaina
>> practice. If I remember well, the strap can also be seen on, for instance,
>> the Borobudur.
>>
>> Herman
>>
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>> website: hermantieken.com
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