by Mircea Eliade · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070328444
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«Techniques du Yoga» is Mircea Eliade's essay on yogic practices, published by Folio in paperback (320 pages, in French).
Mircea Eliade examines yoga as a spiritual tradition and technique: its origins, its methods (bodily techniques, breathing, meditation, visualization, and concentration) and its place in Hindu thought, with references to the teachings of Patanjali, yogic vocabulary, and its modern applications.
The work is number 246 in the Folio Essais collection; this French edition was published in 1994.
Intended for general readers interested in philosophy, spirituality, and the historical study of yogic practices.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
