11. Philipp Maas | The Pātañjalayogaśāstra and its Textual History

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Philipp Maas about his
pioneering textual research on the Yogaśāstra of Patañjali and
its commentarial tradition, the authorship and dating of the
Yogasūtra and its commentary the Bhāṣya, the surviving Sanskrit
manuscripts of the PYŚ, the relationship between Sāṅkhya and
Yoga, the nature of Īśvara for Patañjali, Maas' critical edition
on the PYŚ, and more. 

Speaker Bio

Philipp Maas is a research associate at the Institute for
Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig in
Germany, where he is currently working on a digital critical
edition of the Nyāyabhāṣya, a Sanskrit work on spiritual
liberation through proper reasoning. Previously he had served as
an assistant professor and postdoc researcher at the Department
of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of
Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of
Bonn Germany. He received his M.A. (1997) and Dr. phil. (2004)
degrees from the University of Bonn, where he had completed
studies in Indology, Comparative Religious Studies, Tibetology
and Philosophy.

His first book (originally his PhD thesis) is the first critical
edition of the first chapter (Samādhipāda) of the Pātañjala
Yogaśāstra, i.e. the Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali together with the
commentary called Yoga Bhāṣya. He has published extensively on
classical Yoga philosophy and meditation, Yoga and Āyurveda, the
relationship of Pātañjalayoga to Buddhism as well as on the
textual tradition of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra. He is a member of
the “Historical Sourcebooks on Classical Indian Thought” project,
convened by Prof. Sheldon Pollock, to which he contributes with a
monograph on the development of Yoga-related ideas in pre-modern
South Asian intellectual history.  


Links


https://uni-leipzig.academia.edu/PhilippMaas 

"Pātañjalayogaśāstra" (Brill Encyclopedia Entry, 2020)

"A Concise Historiography of Classical Yoga Philosophy"
(2013)