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Authored Books

Birch, Jason (2024) Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. Pondicherry: École française d'Extrême-Orient. (Collection Indologie, no.161 ; Haṭha Yoga Series, no.4)

Birch, Jason (2024) The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga. Pondicherry, India: École française d’Extrême-Orient. (Haṭha Yoga Series 3)

Wujastyk, Dominik, Birch, Jason, Klebanov, Andrey, Parameswaran, Madhu K., Rimal, Madhusudan, Chakraborty, Deepro, Bhatt, Harshal, Lele, Vandana and Mehta, Paras (2023) On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing.

Book Chapters

Birch, Jason (2020) 'The Quest for Liberation-in-Life: A Survey of Early Works on Haṭha- and Rājayoga.' In: Flood, Gavin D., (ed.), Hindu Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 200-242. (The Oxford History of Hinduism)

Birch, Jason (2020) 'Haṭhayoga’s Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism.' In: Goodall, Dominic, Hatley, Shaman, Isaacson, Harunaga and Raman, Srilata, (eds.), Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson. Leiden: Brill, pp. 451-479. (Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 22)

Birch, Jason (2018) 'The Proliferation of Āsana-s in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts.' In: Baier, Karl, Maas, Philipp André and Preisendanz, Karin, (eds.), Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Vienna: V und R Unipress, pp. 101-180.

Journal Article

Gupta, S.V.B.K.V and Birch, Jason (2022) 'The Ocean of Yoga: An Unpublished Compendium Called the Yogārṇava.' Journal of Indian Philosophy, 50 (3). pp. 345-385.

Birch, Jason (2021) 'Cleaning the Body like a Conch: The Haṭhasaṅketacandrikā and Śaṅkhaprakṣālana.' Academia Letters (144).

Birch, Jason and Singleton, Mark (2019) 'The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity.' Journal of Yoga Studies, 2 (1). pp. 3-70.

Birch, Jason (2019) 'The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga.' Journal of Indian Philosophy, 47 (5). pp. 947-977.

Birch, Jason (2018) 'Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda: Preliminary Remarks on Shared Terminology, Theory, and Praxis.' History of Science in South Asia, 6. pp. 1-83.

Birch, Jason (2014) 'Rājayoga: The Reincarnations of the King of All Yogas.' International Journal of Hindu Studies, 17 (3). pp. 399-442.

Birch, Jason (2011) 'The Meaning of haṭha in Early Haṭhayoga.' Journal of the American Oriental Society, 131 (4). pp. 527-554.