Doṣas by the Numbers
Buddhist Contributions to the Origins of the Tridoṣa-theory in Early Indian Medical Literature with Comparisons to Early Greek Theories of the Humours
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https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa68Keywords:
doṣa, doṣa theory, Āyurveda, Indian medicine, Buddhist medicine, Greek medicine, Hippocratic Corpus, Anonymus LondinensisAbstract
This paper explores the origins of the Indian medical nosology involving the three doṣas from the perspective of its formulation into three or four distinct types. The essay compares similarities in passages from three different literary sources: Pāļi texts of early Buddhism, early Sanskrit medical literature, and Greek texts from the Hippocratic Corpus and the Anonymus Londiniensis. The study reveals that the tridoṣa-theory, common to āyurvedic literature from an early time was based on the adoption and then adaption of ideas nourished by an intellectual exchange with the Greek-speaking world.
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2021-01-05 — Updated on 2021-06-16
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Zysk, Kenneth G. 2021. “Doṣas by the Numbers: Buddhist Contributions to the Origins of the Tridoṣa-Theory in Early Indian Medical Literature With Comparisons to Early Greek Theories of the Humours”. History of Science in South Asia 9 (June). Edmonton, Canada:1-29. https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa68.
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