viernes, 4 de mayo de 2018


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Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies (AABS)


Dear list members,

Our next seminar will be at 6:00-7:30pm on Thursday May 10 in Lecture Theater S325 of the John Woolley Building, University of Sydney.

We hope you can attend.

Kind regards,
AABS Executive


Unbalanced Flows in the Subtle Body: Tibetan Understandings of Psychiatric Illness and How to Deal With it

Disorders caused by imbalance of rlung (wind, breath) form one of the main Tibetan explanatory categories for what Western medical science classes as psychiatric illness. How might we relate Tibetan ideas of rlung to Western ideas of the emotions and the autonomic nervous system? Could such a relationship lead to a productive encounter between Tibetan and Western modes of understanding and treating psychiatric illness?

Geoffrey Samuel is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, where he directs the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR) Research Group, and Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University, Wales, U.K. His academic career has been in social anthropology and religious studies, his books include Mind, Body and Culture (1990), Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies (1993), Tantric Revisionings (2005), The Origins of Yoga and Tantra (2008) and Introducing Tibetan Buddhism (2012). His current research interests include Tibetan yogic health practices, Tibetan medicine, and the dialogue between Buddhism and science.





Buddhist reliquary stupa

Gold leaf covered schist reliquary in the form of a stupa.  Kusana period, North Western India. National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan. Copyright: Huntington, John C. and Susan L.Huntington Archive








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