1. Understanding World Religions
Chapter Fourteen
Other Yogic Type Traditions
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The altar in a Sikh Temple. Source: Photo by Jeremy Hexham © Irving Hexham 2014

2. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source. Alfred Comyn Lyall, History of India, Lodon: Grolier Society, 1907, in the public domain. © Irving Hexham 2011
The Tiger Gate in the Jain city of Palitana in the late nineteenth century.

3. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source. Alfred Comyn Lyall, History of India, Lodon: Grolier Society, 1907, in the public domain. . © Irving Hexham 2011
Inside the Jain temple at Mount Abu-Dilward

4. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Photo by Irving Hexham © Irving Hexham 2011
A modern Jain Temple in a mid-western city.

5. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Photo by Irving Hexham © Irving Hexham 2011
Inside the modern Jain Temple.

6. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source. Alfred Comyn Lyall, History of India, Lodon: Grolier Society, 1907, in the public domain. . © Irving Hexham 2011
The Jain Tower of Silence where bodies of the dead are exposed to the elements for the vultures and other birds of pry to devour.

7. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source: Emily G. Kemp, The Face of China, London: Chatto & Windus, 1909, in the public domain. . © Irving Hexham 2011
A nineteenth century painting of the Holy Mountain of Tai Shan, with its Taoist monastery.

8. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source. Frank Brinkley, China: Its History, Arts, and Literature, Boston: J.B. Millet, In the public domain. . © Irving Hexham 2011
The traditional tomb of Confucius

9. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source: Emily G. Kemp, The Face of China, London: Chatto & Windus, 1909, in the public domain. . © Irving Hexham 2011
A traditional Confusion shrine dedicated to the ancestors.

10. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source: Emily G. Kemp, The Face of China, London: Chatto & Windus, 1909, in the public domain. . © Irving Hexham 2011
A traditional Confucian Temple.

11. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Source: Mortimer Menpes, India, London: A. & C. Black, In the public domain. . © Irving Hexham 2011
A nineteenth century painting of the Golden Temple in Amritsar which is the most sacred of Sikh holy places.

12. Other Yogic Type Traditions
Photo by Irving Hexham © Irving Hexham 2011
A modern Sikh Temple on the West Coast of North America.