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Mark Singleton

Mark Singleton

Yoga scholar

Jul 13, 2026

15:14
In what ways does thinking of yoga through the lens of the Greek, techne, how does this open up our understanding of yoga traditions from India? What is sort of gained through this comparison and what maybe perhaps might be lost through a comparison like that?
15:35
Yeah.
15:39
Well, they...
15:41
So...
15:44
Sanskrit, well, the Greek and the Sanskrit have, there is a word that derives from the same root that gives the Greek tekne.
15:53
So from the Proto-Indo-European, it's a root, root taksh, and you have words in Sanskrit that sort of, They echo that, like takshan, the carpenter.
16:03
I think it's tekton in Greek.

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