Nature (continued)
Yoga’s disvaluing of, 139–40
Tantra’s valuing of, 139–40, 166,
168
Neo-Confucianism. SeeChinese
philosophy
New Testament, 2, 12
Ni¬ch’i (Navajo: ‘Holy Wind’), 160
Non-injury, 92, 106–7
Non-susceptibility, 56–58. See also
Immunity
Normality, 49, 58–61
Ny ̄aya, 42
One-pointedness, 86, 104, 122–23,
126, 135, 143. See also Sanskrit
terms index Ek ̄agrat ̄a
and Om, 152
in chant, 164
in Sanskrit, 155
Oral tradition, 158, 160–61, 173
Organs of action, 101
Overpopulation, 74
Pain, 59, 61–63, 130
Pairs of opposites, 111, 112, 114
Particularity, 34
Pathogenicity, 44, 53, 135–36
Person, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 18, 21, 23. See
also Body
psychophysical, 5–6
as psychosomatic process, 13
as agent of ritual and sacrifice, 24
as tripod, 43
field model, 173
five-sheaths model, 25
Person and body
Indian views, 21–27
Personhood, 7
as achievement, 13, 68
Pharmacology, 5, 40, 53, 63, 168–69
Phenomenology, 14, 62, 65–66
Philosophy of medicine. See Medicine,
Western
Chinese, 19, 41
classical Western, 18–19
contemporary, 19–21, 81
Descartes’, 14–15
Greek, 17–19
Physiology, 40, 44
esoteric physiology of Tantra, 24,
92, 148–49
Plants
as material for musical instruments,
165
Buddhahood of, 170
in food chain, 60
in Lakota philosophy, 170
in reincarnation, 22
medicinal, 24, 38–39, 61, 87, 168–- See also Herbal medicine
and mantra, 169
Polarism
in Chinese philosophy, 13
in Tantra, 145
Postures. See Sanskrit terms index
Yoga: ̄asana
Prevention, 40–41, 46, 52–54, 55–56,
67, 76, 79–82, 107, 116
Prayer, 2, 4, 9, 39, 168
Print-dominated culture, 158. See also
Oral tradition
Process metaphysics, 13
Prognosis, 39, 71–72
Psychology, psychological health, 63,
64, 67–68, 74, 77–78, 103–4,
112, 141, 155. See alsoMental
clarity
Psychosomatic medicine, 19–20
Purification, 108–9, 111, 121, 135
of mind, 104
with mantra, 152
Purity, 36, 79, 102, 106, 109–11,
135–36, 142
Rattle, 162, 165
Recreation, 46, 75, 81, 174
Regimen Sanitarius Salernum (medi-
eval European medical text), 17
Reincarnation, 22
Relationality, 8, 69–72, 167–74
Yoga’s disvaluing of, 139–40
Tantra’s valuing of, 139–40
Relaxation, 57–58, 114
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