Faculty
Our faculty is comprised of expert scholars and educators in the fields of Yoga Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.
Dr. Lubomír Ondračka
Asoke Kumar Sarkar Early Career Fellow in Classical Indology, University of Oxford
Lubomír Ondračka is a publisher, independent researcher and lecturer, currently holding a fellowship in Indology at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied mathematical modelling, nuclear physics, religious studies and Indology. Although basically trained as a philologist (using material in Sanskrit and both medieval and modern Bengali and Hindi), his research is enriched by an anthropological perspective based on his long stays in India (a total of seven years between 1996–2019). His research interests include the history of yoga (especially haṭhayoga), tantric traditions, death and dying rituals in Indian religions, and the culture and religion of Bengal.
His recent publications related to yoga include three entries in the edited volume Yoga Studies in Five Minutes, an encyclopedic survey of haṭhayoga, an analysis of a Middle Bengali text on tantric yoga entitled “The Garland of Bones”, a comprehensive annotated bibliography of haṭhayoga for the Oxford Bibliographies project, and a forthcoming overview of medieval yoga Hindu literature written for the Oxford Handbook of Hindu Literature. Also relevant to yogic research is his study “Transforming the Body by Mastering the Elements, Some Tantric Sources”, published in the Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies. Most of his publications are available in full-text on his academia.edu page.
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