David Gordon White: 4 books
Kiss of the Yogini
"Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2006
For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original...
The Alchemical Body
Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by...
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these...
By Faith Alone
Answering the Challenges to the Doctrine of Justification
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The Reformation swept across Europe with a God-glorifying gospel of grace. Now the doctrine of grace cherished and proclaimed by the Reformers is under renewed assault from an unexpected place—the evangelical church itself.
With the help of several theologians, Gary L. W. Johnson and Guy...