Guest guest Posted July 22, 2000 Report Share Posted July 22, 2000 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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