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Adaptation, 54–56, 76–77
Aesthetic therapeutics
meaning of term, 140
in Tantra, 153–57
Aesthetic(s), 7–8, 153, 157
Afflictions. See Sanskrit terms index
Kle ́sa-s
Alcohol and drugs, 63, 109. See also
Smoking
Alleviation therapy, 61
Ambiguity, 48–49, 55, 61, 62
American Indian Traditions, 9, 70
community in, 169, 170
curing songs, 157, 160–61
Lakota, 161–62, 165, 170, 171–
72
Navajo, 1, 157, 160
Samish, 160–61
SiSí Wiss, 160–61
American Sanskrit Institute, 155
Anatomy, 18–19, 44. See also
Physiology
Anglo-European worldview, 4–5, 6,
12, 13, 22, 158
Animals
and dualism, 14
human being as preeminent animal,
24–25
in food chain, 60
in reincarnation, 22
Art, 75, 153, 157.See alsoAesthetic(s)
Awareness, 62–63, 66–69, 116
̄Ayurveda
and yoga, 36–37, 42

concepts of body, 36–44

concepts of person, 7, 40, 42–44

determinants of health, 7, 9, 46–47,

47–78, 50, 82, 134

eight branches of medicine (table), 37

four branches of medical knowledge

(table), 46

meaning of term, 36, 51

medical therapeutics, 7, 167

philosophical roots, 37, 42

religious therapeutics, 78–82

therapies, 56, 61

Behavioral medicine, 20

Body

alienation from, 66

Anglo-European views of, 11–12,

13, 17–21

as achievement concept, 13, 116

as instrument of sacred music, 161–

62

as repository of spiritual and healing

knowledge and practices, 161,

173

concepts and models

as an instance of creation, 28

as causal network, 20

as communicative field, 20

as conscious, 22, 72

as container, 12–13

as discursive formation, 19–20

as enlightenable, 7, 153

as instrument of enlightenment, 7,

153