Yoga

Statue of Shiva performing yoga in the lotus position File:1_Om.svgA statue of Patanjali, author of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, meditating in the lotus positionThe Pashupati seal from the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300 BCE) shows a seated figure, surrounded by animals, in a posture that was thought by 20th century scholars to be Mulabandhasana. This is rejected by more recent scholars.[94]Bas-relief in Borobudur of the Buddha becoming a wandering hermit instead of a warrior Krishna narrating the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna Traditional Hindu depiction of Patanjali as an avatar of the divine serpent SheshaAsanga, a fourth-century scholar and co-founder of the Yogachara ("Yoga practice") school of Mahayana Buddhism[196]File:A_yogi_seated_in_a_garden.jpgFile:Female_Ascetics_(Yoginis)_LACMA_M.2011.156.4_(1_of_2).jpgSculpture of Gorakshanath, an 11th-century yogi of the Nath tradition and a proponent of hatha yoga[222]Swami Vivekananda in London in 1896Large public yoga as exercise class in a New York City parkInternational Day of Yoga in New Delhi, 2016Gautama Buddha in seated meditation, Gal Vihara, Sri Lanka

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