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War Yoga

Eastern Spirituality

War Yoga

Created retroactively 2026-08-10 during a ghost-link remediation pass; seven citing links resolved to nothing.
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War Yoga

Author: Tom Billinge Year: 2021 (first edition, December 2021) Original file: RAW/books/War Yoga Tom Billinge.md Source type: Practitioner text on martial-ascetic tradition Publisher: Sanctus Europa Press Note: A second War Yoga text (RAW/books/War Yoga Zurxane.md) is also present in RAW and is not covered by this stub.

Provenance Note

Created retroactively 2026-08-10 during a ghost-link remediation pass; seven citing links resolved to nothing. The citations were not fabricated — author, title, publisher and edition verified on disk.

The slug says ch1 while this stub covers the work as a whole. Retained rather than corrected, to avoid breaking inbound links; recorded here instead.

Core Argument

A practitioner treatment of the martial-ascetic lineage — the warrior-renunciate as a real and continuous type rather than a literary figure — together with the physical culture, austerities and combat practice attached to it.

Key Contributions

  • The warrior-ascetic as a lineage rather than as a metaphor.
  • Physical-culture and austerity practices presented in operational rather than descriptive terms.
  • Material connecting Indian martial-ascetic traditions to the vault's existing akhara and Nath-adjacent corpus.

Limitations

Classification rationale: practitioner, not scholarly. Written from inside a tradition, by a practitioner, for practitioners.

🚩 SINGLE SOURCE. Historical claims about lineage continuity are made from within the tradition and are not independently corroborated here.

🚩 TRANSLATION DISTORTION / INSIDER WARRANT. A Western practitioner representing an Indian ascetic tradition. Where this source makes claims about what a tradition holds, those need a corroborating scholarly source before entering ARCHIVES as fact rather than as this author's account.

🚩 MOTIVATED REASONING. A practitioner-author has an interest in the tradition's antiquity and coherence.

Epistemic Notes

Historical and lineage claims: [PLAUSIBLE — needs corroboration] at best, with [SINGLE SOURCE] flagged. Practice descriptions are first-hand and may be cited as what this practitioner teaches.

The ~7 existing citations predate this stub and have not been individually verified against the text.

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