About the Author

Prof Dr Karl Baier is Head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century alternative religion, occultism and modern yoga. Dr Philipp A. Maas is Research Associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig. His work is focused on Patañjalis Yoga in premodern South Asia and in modern academic research, on Indian philosophy and on Ayurveda. Karin Preisendanz is Professor and Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, and author of Studien zu Nyayasutra III.1 (1994) and numerous other studies on Indian philosophy and culture.