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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.
Thinley Gyatso discusses the use of mantras in Tibetan medical practice. He describes early medical texts that address how mantras are used as healing...
This presentation briefly introduces the Japanese Vajrayana tradition of Shingon Buddhism and a few of its fundamental breathing techniques. It then summarizes some of...
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, “Reciting, Chanting, and Singing: The Codification of Music in Buddhist Canon Law", by Cuilan Liu,...
