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A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, “The Body of the Buddha" by John Powers, published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The Footnotes series is created at the University of Toronto, in Canada, with support from eCampus Ontario.
This presentation explores how Tibetan Buddhist and medical notions of the relationship between heart, wind and mind come together to explain the (dys)functioning of...
Breath and wind concepts are widespread in Asia, and the Tibetans inherited both Yogic and Tantric prāṇa and Ayurvedic vāta, both translated into Tibetan...
Thinley Gyatso discusses the use of mantras in Tibetan medical practice. He describes early medical texts that address how mantras are used as healing...
