Georg Feuerstein

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Dr. Georg Feuerstein (born 1947) is a German-Canadian Indologist specializing on Yoga. Feuerstein has authored over 30 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism. He has translated, among other traditional texts, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita.

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[edit] Biography

Feuerstein was born in Germany. He moved to England to do his postgraduate research at Durham University [1] and subsequently lived for 23 years in the United States. Today, he is a resident of Canada and lives in Saskatchewan.

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Ken Wilber has called him both "probably Gebser's foremost American interpreter"[2] as well as "...a scholar-practitioner of the first magnitude, an extremely important and valuable voice for the perennial philosophy, and arguably the foremost authority on Yoga today."[citation needed]

Historian of religions Mircea Eliade called Feuerstein's 'The Philosophy of Classical Yoga', "one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga".[citation needed]

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  1. ^ Georg Feuerstein A Teacher, author and profound wisdom source of the Yoga tradition
  2. ^ Second Response to Allan Combs

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