Dear List,
 
This is what I meant to send to the list, and not just to Frank.  Sorry for the little mistake.
George
 
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Dear Frank,
 
I do think that "yogaslavia" may be the better reading here.  On the other hand, the term "yogaslavia" may refer instead to the state of California, where I lived for nearly 20 years, and where yogaslavians outnumbered the state's two major political parties by far.  And they still do.
 
So, is the first member of this compound a loanword from Sanskrit, or is it some kind of homonym of itself?  And what exactly is the etymology of the second member?
 
In any case, after studying yoga for a few years in San Francisco in the 70's, I quickly realized that I was much more interested in words [Sanskrit ones, of course, among many others] than in asanas.  And so I became a Vedicist instead of a yogin.
Best,
George
 
p.s. the new from Japan keeps on getting worser and worser.... it is vey upsetting!

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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:41 PM, George Thompson <gthomgt@gmail.com> wrote:


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Frank Conlon <conlon@u.washington.edu> wrote:
Dear Colleagues:

As a postscript to our discussions on 'yoga' and its current state, the following advert appeared on the H-Net Announcements, you may note the
odd holdover that led the poster to give the location as Yugoslavia! Perhaps it should be Yogaslavia??

Frank

Frank F. Conlon
Professor Emeritus of History, South Asian
    Studies & Comparative Religion
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3560      USA
Co-editor, H-ASIA
Managing Director, Bibliography of Asian Studies Online

 YOGA IN SCIENCE - FUTURE AND PERSPECTIVES

Location: Yugoslavia
Conference Date: 2011-08-11
Date Submitted: 2011-03-10
Announcement ID: 183755

SCIENTIFIC-PROFESSIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION YOGA IN SCIENCE  FUTURE AND PERSPECTIVES
BELGRADE, SERBIA, AUGUST 11-12, 2011

INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION

ORGANIZERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
YOGA FEDERATION OF SERBIA
YOGA CENTER OF SERBIA
CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
ASSOCIATION FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH OF YOGA
BELGRADE, SERBIA

GOAL OF THE SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE Goal of this scientific conference is presentation of theoretical and empirical researches of Yoga discovering variety of its representation and implementation in many scientific fields. Goal of the scientific program of the conference is to include as wide multidisciplinary and complementary aspects of Yoga as possible. This conference is going to gather leading professors, scientists, doctors and experts from different scientific areas who research phenomena, ranges and effects of the yoga implementation.

THEMES: ALL SCIENTIFIC FIELDS

DATE AND VENUE OF THE CONFERENCE
Conference is going to be held in Belgrade, Serbia, on August 11-12, 2011, organized by

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Resfectfully,

Prof. PhD Predrag Nikic
President of the Yoga Federation of Serbia


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