Open AccessBook Review of Biography of a Yogi (Foxen, 2017).
Author(s) -
Matthew Clark
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of yoga studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2664-1739
DOI - 10.34000/joys.2020.v3.005
Subject(s) - biography , aside , history , art history , classics , art , literature
Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga. Anya P. Foxen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 238 pages. First published in 1946, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda has to date sold over four million copies. It is by far Yogananda’s most popular book and has been translated into thirty-three languages. Aside from South Asian religio-philosophical texts, Autobiography of a Yogi is perhaps the most widely read publication on the life of a yogi of all time.