Footnotes on "Pneuma, Qi, and the Problematic of Breath"

September 27, 2021 00:15:34
Footnotes on "Pneuma, Qi, and the Problematic of Breath"
Buddhist Studies Footnotes
Footnotes on "Pneuma, Qi, and the Problematic of Breath"

Sep 27 2021 | 00:15:34

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Show Notes

A reading guide by Frances Garrett for an article by Shigehisa Kuriyama, "Pneuma, Qi, and the Problematic of Breath," in The Comparison Between Concepts of Life-Breath in East and West (Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, August 26-September 3, 1990), Edited by Yosio Kawakita, Shizu Sakai, and Yasuo Otsuka. Ishiyaku EuroAmerica, Inc, 1995, Pages 1-32. This episode of Footnotes was a lecture produced by Frances Garrett for a 2019 University of Toronto undergraduate course called Biohacking Breath.

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