Dear Itamar Matthew is correct in pointing to the psychological dimensions of rlung nad in Tibetan medicine. A few more recent references:
Jacobson, Eric. (2002). Panic attack in a context of comorbid anxiety and depression in a Tibetan refugee. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 26, 259–279. Jacobson, Eric. (2007). Life-wind illness in Tibetan medicine: Depression, generalised anxiety and panic attack. In M. Schrempf (Ed.), Soundings in Tibetan medicine: Anthropological and historical perspectives (pp. 225–245). Leiden: Brill. (Proceedings of the 10th seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (PIATS), Oxford September 6–12 2003). Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit (2010) Tibetan ‘wind’ and ‘wind’ illnesses: towards a multicultural approach to health and illness. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 41, 318–324 Deane, Susannah (2018) Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental Health and Healing in a Tibeatn Exile Community. CArolina Academic Press. Samuel, Geoffrey (2019) Unbalanced flows in the subtle body: Tibetan understandings of psychiatric illness and how to deal with it. Journal of Religion and Health (2019) 58:770–794 Rlung nad in Tibet is both a scholarly category and a colloquial term. It covers more or less the area of anxiety and depression in Western psychiatry, but also includes physiological aspects and symptoms. There is certainly continuity with the Ayurvedic literature, as well as influence from the Tantric context. Geoffrey Samuel University of Sydney On 24 Aug 2022, at 10:38 am, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Itamar, I do not know the Indic sources in this case, but the Tibetan equivalent, rlung nad (lit. "wind disease"), often refers to states of panic, paranoia, hyper-sensitivity, etc. A somewhat popular, but not erroneous, presentation of the issue may be found in Terry Clifford, Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry, pp. 132-136. Those more familiar with medical literature than I am may well have additional suggestions. Matthew Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'études, émérite Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago https://brill.com/view/title/60949<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrill.com%2Fview%2Ftitle%2F60949&data=05%7C01%7Csamuelg%40cardiff.ac.uk%7Ce776c663fc19415801d208da85b471f9%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1%7C0%7C637969307301951497%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a39uAW8b8yQRH3mz78CataQ7jIhvfz7nxaGGBZUYgIA%3D&reserved=0> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fephe.academia.edu%2FMatthewKapstein&data=05%7C01%7Csamuelg%40cardiff.ac.uk%7Ce776c663fc19415801d208da85b471f9%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1%7C0%7C637969307301951497%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IHOZ1pFjEWonl62xGd1Y2tVSB4oG0Eg37clCZENeWzs%3D&reserved=0> ________________________________ From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Itamar Ramot via INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 4:23 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Psychological effect of vāta-doṣa Dear All, Is anyone familiar with a none physical effect of vāta-doṣa? Dictionaries translate vāta as gout or rheumatism, but in the context where I found this term, it seems as if it should have a more psychological/mental effect, such as madness or delusion. Any suggestions? Best, -- Itamar Ramot PhD Candidate, South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://salc.uchicago.edu/profiles/itamar-ramot<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsalc.uchicago.edu%2Fprofiles%2Fitamar-ramot&data=05%7C01%7Csamuelg%40cardiff.ac.uk%7Ce776c663fc19415801d208da85b471f9%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1%7C0%7C637969307301951497%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E76wU8PkM8TlAwwlkgdeXBDFv6djAPR6p1ulEEH5TIQ%3D&reserved=0> _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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