Pierre Feuga (16 October 1942 – 10 June 2008) was a French novelist, essayist and translator (from Sanskrit and Latin). A specialist of the

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, the cults of

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and

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, he also taught

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for twenty-seven years.notice d'autorité
de la

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Biography

Born in a family of artists and travelers, Pierre Feuga also made long trips around the world. He won the

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of literature at age sixteen while he was a pupil at

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in Paris. Although Feuga did not recognize any master, he nevertheless was very influenced by Patrick Le Bail then Jean Klein with whom he studied the

and the Hatha-Yoga in the tradition of Jammu-Kashmir. After a long sailing trip that led him to New Caledonia (where he gave his first yoga classes), he settled in Paris and taught there until his death on 10 June 2008. At the same time, he undertook a series of works on the Tantric universe as well as on

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. Publishing in particular with Dangles and

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, he was entrusted in 1998 with the drafting of the

Que sais-je? "Que sais-je?" (QSJ) (; Literally: "What do I know?", ) is an editorial collection published by the Presses universitaires de France (PUF). The aim of the series is to provide the lay reader with an accessible introduction to a field of study wr ...

devoted to yoga (#643) in collaboration with

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. In 2004 he became the literary editor of the Almora editions. He was also a member of the editorial board of the journal '.

Publications

*1963: ''Cracher dans la mer'', novel,

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*1965: ''La Galère en bois de rose'', novel,

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*1988: ''Cent douze méditations tantriques'', the "Vijñâna-Bhairava", translation from Sanskrit and commentary, Accarias/L'Originel, *1989: ''Cinq visages de la Déesse'', Le Mail/Le Rocher, *1989: ''Liber'' de Catulle, translation from Latin, Orphée/La Différence *1990: ''Les Trophées'',

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, choice and presentation, Orphée/La Différence *1990: ''Le bonheur est de ce monde'', Accarias-L'Originel, *1992: ''Satires'' de Juvénal, translation from Latin, Orphée/La Différence *1992: ''L'Art de la concentration'',

, series "Espaces libres", n°32, *1994: ''Tantrisme'', Dangles, *1998: ''Le Yoga'', in collaboration with Tara Michaël, PUF, series Que sais-je ?, n°643 *2004: ''Comme un cercle de feu'', translation from Sanskrit and commentaries of the ''Mândûkya-upanishad'' and the ''Kârikâ'' by Gaudapâda, Accarias-L'Originel, *2005: ''Pour l'Éveil'', Almora, *2008
''Le Chemin des flammes''
Almora, *2008: ''Le Miroir du vent'', novel, Almora, *2010: ''Fragments tantriques'', Almora, (posthumous collection of articles and chronicles),

References

External links

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''Dormir dans les postures ?'' par Pierre Feuga

Interview with Pierre Feuga
(9 October 2012) {{DEFAULTSORT:Feuga, Pierre 1942 births 2008 deaths People from Lectoure French Indologists Translators from Sanskrit Translators to French Writers from Occitania (administrative region) 20th-century French writers 21st-century French writers 20th-century French essayists 21st-century French essayists 20th-century French translators Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni Prix Fénéon winners