[INDOLOGY] question about a Jaina practice

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks, Patrick,

     I now looked at all the images in the link provided by Lubomir.  I am
interested in something like this for personal use.  Three months after my
knee joint replacement surgery, I can now fold my legs for Yoga, but only
with some discomfort.  Perhaps, something like this Yogapaṭṭa will be
useful.  Best,

Madhav

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 9:31 AM Olivelle, J P <jpo at austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

> If you look at the link given by Lubomir, you will see several images.
>
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> 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*
>>
>> University of Bristol
>> Department of Religion and Theology
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>> Email: Rupert.Gethin at bristol.ac.uk <Rupert.Gethin at bristol.ac.uk>
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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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