Geoffrey Samuel on "Wind and Breath in Tibetan Thought"

December 13, 2021 00:30:49
Geoffrey Samuel on "Wind and Breath in Tibetan Thought"
Buddhist Studies Footnotes
Geoffrey Samuel on "Wind and Breath in Tibetan Thought"

Dec 13 2021 | 00:30:49

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Frances Garrett Tony Scott

Show Notes

Breath and wind concepts are widespread in Asia, and the Tibetans inherited both Yogic and Tantric prāṇa and Ayurvedic vāta, both translated into Tibetan as rlung. This proved a constructive confluence for Tibetan Tantra and Tibetan medicine, and may be suggestive too for modern Western understandings of consciousness and its physiological correlates.

This presentation is part of the Buddhism and Breath Summit, which took place online in 2021, with a group of researchers exploring Buddhist practices of working with the breath or the “winds” of the body. The event was co-hosted by Frances Garrett and Pierce Salguero, and co-sponsored by the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto and Jivaka.net. You can watch the video of this talk and find other resources from the Buddhism and Breath Summit at Jivaka.net

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