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Sir James Mallinson, 5th Baronet, of Walthamstow (born 22 April 1970) is a British Indologist, writer and translator. He is Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford , [ 1 ] and recognised as one of the world's leading experts on the history of medieval Hatha yoga .
Roots of Yoga is a 2017 book of commentary and translations from over 100 ancient and medieval yoga texts, mainly written in Sanskrit but including several other languages, many not previously published, about the origins of yoga including practices such as āsana, mantra, and meditation, by the scholar-practitioners James Mallinson and Mark Singleton.
The yoga scholar James Mallinson stated in 2017, and again in 2021, that the Amṛtasiddhi comes from a Tantric Buddhist environment, not Tantric Shaivism. [ 22 ] [ 10 ] [ 14 ] [ 23 ] The scholar of religion Samuel Grimes notes that the Amṛtasiddhi shows evident Buddhist influence, and had an easily traced influence on physical Hatha yoga ...
James Mallinson has studied the origins of hatha yoga in classic yoga texts such as the Khecarīvidyā. He has identified eight works of early hatha yoga that may have contributed to its official formation in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. This has stimulated further research into understanding the formation of hatha yoga. [9]
Mallinson comments that the text is too terse to serve as a foundation for practice, and could not have substituted for direct instruction by a guru; nor in his view would it have been used as a mnemonic: he had never met a yogi who worked in that way. Rather, hatha yoga texts lent authority to a school of thought and its yoga practices.
The Gheranda Samhita is a yoga manual, that teaches 32 asanas and 25 mudras among other things. ... James Mallinson (2011). Knut A. Jacobsen; et al. (eds.).
Mallinson, James; Singleton, Mark (2017). Roots of Yoga. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-25304-5. OCLC 928480104. Mallinson, James (2024). The Dattātreyayogaśāstra. Paris and Pondicherry: École française d'Extrême-Orient and Institut français de Pondichéry.
James Mallinson: 2023 onwards University of Oxford and SOAS: Balliol: Mallinson was Reader in Sanskrit and Yoga Studies at SOAS, University of London from 2013 to 2023. Prior to his appointment at SOAS Mallinson worked as a principal translator for the Clay Sanskrit Library. He is the author of nine books, all of them translations and editions ...