Practitioners whose standing rests on sustained ascetic and meditative discipline rather than on office, descent or revelation. These are living traditions, and the atlas describes them rather than instructing in them: what is recorded here is who a figure was and what a lineage holds, not how anything is done. Milarepa is filed here, a Tibetan case rather than an Indian one, and the life story that carries his name was compiled long after he lived, which is a fact about the source and not a judgement on the man.
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What Defines This GroupingAccomplished practitioners of yoga and of ascetic discipline in the Indian traditions. The word names a practitioner rather than an office, is used across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain settings, and carries no institutional recognition comparable to ordination. 2 Learn More
The Yogis
This group holds yogis, accomplished practitioners and masters of yoga and ascetic spiritual discipline in the Indian traditions, figures marked by the powers and realisation attributed to long inner practice.
The browser will find the figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe each yogi's tradition and reputation, treating the extraordinary feats ascribed to them as the tradition's own account.
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Roots of Yoga
James Mallinson and Mark Singleton (trans. and eds.), Penguin Classics, 2017the introduction, on who counts as a yogiView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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