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6500 - 4500 BCE PreVedic
Beginnings of the Indus Saraswati civilization (Pakistan, Western India) Town Mehrgarh, (now modern day Afganistan) 20,000 people 4500 - 2000 BCE Vedic Period, determined by astronomical data in the texts.Indus Saraswati civilization flourishing Rig Veda beginning to be composed 3102 BCE Kali Yuga begins, The Dark Age of Human History 2950 BCE (old Kingdom of Egypt begins) 2050 BCE Ramayana story happens 1900 BCE Saraswati River dries up. Migration to northern India. 1550 BCE Rig Veda finished 1500 BCE (Aryan invasion theory. Now refuted.) 1500 - 1000 BCE Upanishads 1450 BCE Mahabharata War happens, 18 days 1290 BCE Kapila, Samkhya philosophy 1000 - 100 BCE Pre Classical Age, Mahabharata written 599 - 527 BCE Mahaavira, founder of the Jains 563 - 483 BCE Siddhaarta Gautama, the Buddha 550 BCE Paanini, Sanskrit grammarian 500 BCE Bhagavad Geetaa written 483 BCE First Buddhist Council, Tripitika written 400 BCE Dhammapada written 383 BCE Second Buddhhist Council, Split of Theravada and Mahaayana traditions 269 - 232 BCE King Ashoka converted to Buddha’s teachings, created it as a state religion. 200 BCE - 400CE Buddhist teachings flourish in northern India 100 BCE Lakulisha, Pashupata lineage. First in the Kri palu lineage. 100BCE Mahayana Buddhism rises teachings on empti ness and compassion 50 CE Arrival of Buddhism in China 150 - 200 CE Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 350 - 500 Buddhist and Hindu Tantra rises 450 Yoga Bhaashya, oldest commentary on the Yoga Sutras. (Mentions 11 postures.) 788 - 820 Shankara, great teacher of Advaita Vendanta 900 - 1000 Early Hindu tantras works composed 1000 Hatha Yoga begins out of the Tantric lineages 1172 Yoga Shaastra written by Hemachandra 1200 First Muslim invasion of India 1200 Gorksha Padddhati composed (84 postures) 1250 Yoga Upanishads composed 1300 - 1700 Bhakti Age 1350 Hatha Yoga Pradeepikaa composed. 1440 - 1518 Kabir, poet saint, starts integration of Muslim and Hindu teachings 1450 Jivan-mukti-viveka, a Vedanta work on the ideal of liberation while alive 1469 - 1539 Naanak, founder of the Sikhs. 1532 - 1623 Raamaayana composed by Tulsi Daas 1556 - 1605 Muslim Emperor Akbar rules northern India 1650 Gheranda Samhitaa 1750 Shiva Samhita 1760 British rule India 1792 Mysore Palace Gymnastics Tradition begins 1834 - 1886 Ramakrishna, mystic 1861 - 1941 Rabindranath Tagore, India’s great poet 1862 - 1902 Swami Vivekananda disseminates yoga to the West 1869 - 1948 Mahatma Gandhi 1960 BKS Iyengar ‘Light on Yoga” Modern day aasana practice begins emphasis on physical alignment. Reform movement away from traditional ideas of ‘yogi as superman’ to yoga as something for ordinary people. |
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