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Mind, Wind, and Heart: Tibetan Notions of Wind in Mental Health and Illness, Susannah Deane

This presentation explores how Tibetan Buddhist and medical notions of the relationship between heart, wind and mind come together to explain the (dys)functioning of the mind, and how this is understood to lead to various forms of 'mental illness' through incorrect Tantric practice and other factors including an individual's behaviors and/or emotional states. I use examples from interview material with lay Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhist and Sowa Rigpa medical specialists, alongside some material from Tibetan medical texts, to explore the causes, symptoms, and treatments of various forms of 'wind illness' in Tibetan perspective. Contents: 0:00 Introduction 0:44 Rlung 3:05 Wind in Sowa Rigpa 5:28 Wind in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra 7:46 Wind illnesses 15:27 Treating wind illness with medicine 17:30 Concluding remarks See additional resources at http://www.jivaka.net/buddhism-and-br... . Susannah Deane is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Religion and Theology, University of Bristol. Susannah does research on Tibetan perspectives on mental health, illness, and healing in both exile communities and Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China.