Tibetan Buddhist medicine and psychiatry: The diamond healing/
Terry Clifford
- Delhi: M.B.Pub., 1994.
- 268 p.
PART I: Tibetan Buddhist Medicine 1. AN OVEJIVIEW 2. THE MEDICINE OF DHARMA Shakyamuni Buddha The Heart of Dharma The Medical Analogy of Buddhism and the Three Yanas 3. INDIAN MEDICINE AND BUDDHISM Ayurveda Buddhism's Influence on Ayurveda 4. MEDICINE IN TIBET Sacred Origins and the Medicine Deities Tibet Seeks the Medical Learning of India and the World Tibetan Medicine on its Own 5. TANTRIC MEDICINE Mystical Physiology: The Psychic Channels, Airs and Veins The Chakras and the Splendid Inner Vision Tantric Ritual Healing and Medicines Self-Healing and the Basic Healing Meditation 6. SOMATIC MEDICINE: DESCRIPTIVE ASPECTS The Three Humoral Theory Causes of Disease The Gyu-zhi and its Simile—"The Tree of Health and Disease" Additional Notes on Diagnosis Dying, Death, and Rebirth 7. SOMATIC MEDICINE: CURATIVE" ASPECTS Tibetan Pharmacology Qualities of Medicinal Substances Medicine-Making and State of Mind Administering Medicines PART II: Tibetan medical psychiatry 8. MEDICAL PSYCHIATRY The Three Classical Approaches to Psychiatry Mind's Primary Relationship to the 'Winds' The Five Causes of Insanity 9. DEMONS IN MEDICAL PSYCHIATRY What are these 'Demons'? Classifications of Negative Forces Causing Mental Illness Evil Spirits and the Medicine of Dharma Exorcism 10. THREE PSYCHIATRIC CHAPTERS TRANSLATED FROM THE GYU-ZHI Introduction Chapter 77 of the Third Tantra Chapter .78 of the Third Tantra Chapter 79 of the Third Tantra A Few Parallels to Modern Psychiatry 11. THE PHARMACOLOGY OF TIBETAN MEDICAL PSYCHIATRY Additional Psychiatric Medicines Important Ingredients for Psychiatric Use 12. CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FLIGHTS OF THOUGHT
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Medicine, Tibetan. Buddhist medicine. Psychiatry -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.