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Gary

In an earlier post, I endeavored to make a link between mental predispositions

as described in Tibetan buddhism, my limited understanding of ayurvedic

tridosa and TCM zheng. The description of the mental predispositions

and the association with tibetan tridosa were influenced mainly by Terry

Clifford's Tibetan Buddhist Psychiatry. I studied Ayurvedic

patterns in depth with Robert Svoboda's Ayurvedic Institute correspondence

course under the direct tutelage of one of his personal students.

While I never pursued Ayurveda professionally, ayurvedic patterns clearly

seemed to overlap with TCM zheng in many instances. There is nothing

surprising about this, since both ayurvedic and TCM patterns can describe

all disease phenomena, at least in a general way. In many cases,

Ayurvedic medicine also describes and uses herbs very similarly to TCM

(see Frawley and Dash books). So if chinese herbs can treat the same

zheng as are described in ayurveda, can they also impact these mental predispositions?

So meditation aside, what I was now curious about in this regard was

more precision in understanding the terms I have rendered as attraction,

ignorance and aversion. Can you help me with this? Being fluent

in Sanskrit, have you ever studied any buddhist or ayurvedic texts that

may touch on this subject at all (herbs, tridosa and mental predispositions).

thanks.

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