Footnotes on "Vital Breath (prāṇa) in Ancient Indian Medicine and Religion"

August 23, 2021 00:18:57
Footnotes on "Vital Breath (prāṇa) in Ancient Indian Medicine and Religion"
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Footnotes on "Vital Breath (prāṇa) in Ancient Indian Medicine and Religion"

Aug 23 2021 | 00:18:57

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Show Notes

A reading guide by Frances Garrett for an article by Kenneth Zysk, "Vital Breath (prāṇa) in Ancient Indian Medicine and Religion," 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 33-66. 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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