Religion and medicine, 2–6, 45, 78,
131, 137
Religious therapeutics
dimensions of (table), 1–2
model of, 6–7, 172–73
model, with eight branches (table),
8, 167
purposes of model, 2
Renunciation, t ̄antric, 36
S ̄amkhya, 5–6, 26, 30, 37, 40, 42, 44,Ó
89, 91
five elements, 146, 147, 154–55
in ̄Ayurveda, 42–44
Sacred, 8, 100, 135, 158, 168
as compatible with materiality, 166
as non-identical to ‘spiritual,’ 166
Salvation
etymological relation to health and
wholeness, 135
Sand-paintings, 157
Sanskrit, 156, 188n47
script, 151
Sanskrit chant
healing elements in, 163–64
Savior, 2, 3
School of Salernum, 17
Scripture, 168
oral experience of, 158
study of, 111
Seasons, 54, 80–81
Self, 5, 22–23, 26, 28, 43, 49. See also
Sanskrit terms index ̄Atman;
puruÓsa
as not subject to sickness, 137, 168
Self-deception, 68, 77
Self-education, 111
Self-identity, 6, 7, 9, 73, 75, 103, 130,
131, 133, 134, 136–37, 142,
171, 172
Self-preservation, 54–55
Senses (vision, taste, smell, hearing,
and touch), 101
meditative withdrawal of, 121–22
Sensuality, 75, 108
in Tantra, 31, 143
Sexuality, 36, 59, 108
in Tantra, 140, 143–45
Yoga’s disvaluing of, 139–40
Shakuhachi (Japanese flute), 162
Shamanism, 126
S ̄ı™ ̄ılh(Samish: to sing, pray, cry), 161
Sleep, 41, 59, 80–81, 106
Smoking, 12, 53
as unethical, 107
Social reform, 171
Social welfare, 15, 171–72
Soil, in food chain, 60, 63
Song
as extension of body, 161–62
for healing, 160–61
Soteriology, 3
Sound, 93, 142, 149–53, 155–56,
165–66
as non-material being, 165–66
in Vedas, 146
Speech, 4, 156, 168
and breath, 160
as extension of body, 161–62
Spirit, 117–18
Storytelling, 161. See alsoOral
tradition
Strength, 57–58, 59, 60
Stress, stress-related disorders, 58, 81,
107, 115, 116, 159
Sublimation, 36
Sufism, 141
Surgery, 5
in ̄Ayurveda, 37, 38
Symbol, 159
mantraas, 150
sexual, 144
Tantra, 7, 26, 36, 82, 139
aesthetic therapeutics, 153–57
as valuing nature, 139–40, 166, 168
body in, 7, 29–36
practice of, 140–43
therapeutic elements of, 154–55
Taoism. See Chinese philosophy
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dominance in Anglo-European tra-
ditions, 158
vs. oral tradition, 161subject index 207