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Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga. Anya P. Foxen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 238 pages. First published in 1946, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda has to date sold over four million copies. It is by far Yogananda’s most popular book and has been translated into thirty-three languages. Aside from South Asian religio-philosophical texts, Autobiography of a Yogi is perhaps the most widely read publication on the life of a yogi of all time.

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  • Yogananda sailed from Calcutta to Boston in 1920 to attend as an Indian delegate the International Congress of Religious Liberals that was convening in Boston; there he delivered a lecture on “The Science of Religion.” Yogananda taught his version of Kriya Yoga philosophy and practices in the USA from 1920 until his demise in 1952

  • First published in 1946, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda has to date sold over four million copies

  • Yogananda (Mukunda Lal Ghosh, 1893–1952) was born in Gorakhpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was initiated into Kriya Yoga in 1907 in Calcutta, together with his best friend Manomohan Mazumdar

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Yogananda sailed from Calcutta to Boston in 1920 to attend as an Indian delegate the International Congress of Religious Liberals that was convening in Boston; there he delivered a lecture on “The Science of Religion.” Yogananda taught his version of Kriya Yoga philosophy and practices in the USA from 1920 until his demise in 1952. Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga.

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