Chris, Sun Si-miao for one tried to introduce a 'four phases' theory into Chinese medicine via his work in the Qian jin yao fang along with Buddhist...
Greetings, It has been great to see so much conversation about Tibetan Medicine on this list. The nature of elemental systems has always fascinated me. As I...
Hi Eric, Great post... Your last paragraph is very good (included below)... where you say the five senses are filtered to the mind for processing. That is...
Z'ev and all, Where in the Qian jin yao fang is that? I have been looking for references to Sun Simiao's Buddhist and humoral medicine influences. What are...
Hi Eric I am wondering about your research of Tibetan Medicine wit some comments, especially to that participants who believe, that Chinese Medicine has taken...
Just wanted to add about Tibetan and Thay medical sources, that they are from Vedic era, or 15 hundred years earlier then Buddha was born, later they were...
Eric, I've asked a colleague who is an expert in the Qian jin yao fang to research this for me. . . I'll keep you posted. . Z'ev ... Z'ev Rosenberg, L. Ac. ...
Igor, I am impressed at how well you type on an iPhone! Clearly Tibetan medicine as we know it is of later vintage than Chinese medicine, I started out this...
Hi Igor, Thanks for your messages. Where is your information derived? Russian sources? ... There is little in the Vedic Samhitas themselves speaking about...
... There may be an apples-and-oranges confusion here. The six senses (5 bodily plus the mind gate) are named “dhatu” (basic components), in one sense: as...
To preface a couple of comments below, and perhaps try to justify going on like this in this forum, a challenge: What exactly are the earliest references or...
Chris, According to Elizabeth Hsu, the earliest account of pulse/vessel diagnosis was contained in the medical biography of Chunyu Yi, written in the Han...
We refer to inner as more essential, the actual substance that makes ourselves and the universe at the core. Then, outer refers to the influence of seasonal...
Z'ev and Chris: Thanks for the great work on the Chunyu Yi text. Sure, it is the earliest surviving text. Qin Shi Huangdi burnt all the books he could get his...
Chris, The word dhatu has many meanings in many contexts. It can refer to a layer, bodily tissue, realm, dimension, metal or mineral, element, verbal root,...
Eric, Any oral tradition such as this will be speculative, we can only work with what we have available. . . and back to the Western Han is pretty impressive...
Hi, In a sense, I feel vindicated. I talk about the external environment and the internal environment within the body... that they behave differently. I...
Cleaning up a couple of points... ... As used in the Visuddhimagga (considered quintessential Theravada), translated by Nanamoli: “ internal” = ajjhatta...
Hi Eric My sources are Oriental Archive of Russian Science Academy It is biggest archives including tibetan archives,as tibetan buddhism is one of official...
Chris, Adhyatma and bahya would be the sanskrit equivalent to ajjhata and bahira. Adhyatma in sanskrit refers to internal, but also to 'relating to the...
Hi Eric, do you say we shouldn't get stuck on these terms for inner and outer because it would be like comparing oranges and apples? Yet, if they have been...
Anryu Iwashina Sensei (Dr. Bear) is teaching a three day course in Berkeley California in March. I have been practicing the Dr. Bear method almost exclusively...
Will, I looked at the file you uploaded to the group back in 2001 called Depth models. (It is an excel file with a chart of comparisons.) I noticed there that...
Hi Ed, You have it right. Li Shi-zhen organized the pulse by three burners as the primary view. IMO it is equal to Dan Tian. Warmly, William On Wed, Feb 15,...
But, canoic SanJiao, I learned it, are presented as the three cavities of the trunk -- pelvic, abdominal, and thoracic. The triple Dantien, on the other hand,...
Chris - My association of three burners and three dan tian are based upon oral tradition. There are contemporary qi gung publications that explicate the ...
Chris, You make a good point. There are two ways to view the three burners (cavities) and thus two ways to apply them to the pulse positions. My preference is...
