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Do Yoga’s Hindu Roots Matter?

May 15, 2010 By Lisa Miller

I don’t care much for bland spirituality, so at yoga class I generally tune out the prelude, when the teacher reads aloud—as is the custom—an inspirational passage on which to meditate. Recently, though, I was startled to attention when the teacher chose a paragraph on compassion from the Dalai Lama’s bestseller The Art of Happiness. […]

Filed Under: Newsweek, Religion Tagged With: Bhagavad Gita, Dalai Lama, Eastern religions, Hindu scripture, Lisa Miller, Ralph waldo Emerson, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist, yoga, Yoga Journal

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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