Cultural Heritage Of Indian Yoga Research, And Education

According to the general concept of education, all activities which improve people's knowledge and skills and affect people's morality, are education. Culture also has its educational function. Yoga and Taiji not only bring the healthy mind and body to people, but also give people more educational ideas. They both play very important roles for the formation of national character and social structure for Chinese and India people. Culture has a very important educational and social function. This is also why I study these two kinds of culture in this research.The primary goal of this article is, from the concept of Anthropology of Education, I will use the literature, comparison and logical analysis to study for yoga's educational function, philosophy and its influence to individual and the whole society. Compare yoga to Taiji, I find out the reason why yoga is so popular. Through this paper, I hope we can gain more experience from inheritance of Indian culture, reevaluate the traditional culture in our country, figure out a better way for our culture.Chapter 1 simply introduces yoga culture from its concept and practice. Yoga and its theory compose the essential part of the culture.Chapter 2 rooted in the cultural ecology; analyze yoga's educational function from moral, intelligence, physical and art. Discuss the influence to the national characteristic of Indian nationality and for their general mood of society.Chapter 3 analyzes yoga's inheritance system from its media, the way of inheritance and the place of inheritance. We will mainly introduce the place of inheritance, especially in school. After that, we will show the progress of yoga's growth, discuss why yoga grew from a common exercise in one developing country to a so popular culture all over the world.Chapter 4, I compare yoga and Taiji in their cultural characteristic, educational functionality and inheritance mechanism, and also compare their successful experience and challenges to face, figure out why yoga is better than Taiji in their progress of spread. At the same time I will give some advice to the development of tai chi and our other traditional culture.