Problems of Tantric Anatomy

TY - ICOMM

T1 - Problems of Tantric Anatomy

AU - Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich

PY - 2015/4/10

Y1 - 2015/4/10

N2 - This article brings brings together a section of Janet Gyatso's new book "Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet" with a vajra statement of Jigten Sumgön's "Single Intention." I discuss the Drikungpa's view that same aspects of reality concerning tantric inner channels are more profoundly explained in Tibetan medical literature than in the tantras.

AB - This article brings brings together a section of Janet Gyatso's new book "Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet" with a vajra statement of Jigten Sumgön's "Single Intention." I discuss the Drikungpa's view that same aspects of reality concerning tantric inner channels are more profoundly explained in Tibetan medical literature than in the tantras.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Buddhist tantra

KW - Tibetan medicine

KW - inner channels of the body

KW - tantric anatomy

M3 - Net publication - Internet publication

ER -