@article{Zysk_2021, place={Edmonton, Canada}, title={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}, volume={9}, url={https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/68}, DOI={10.18732/hssa68}, abstractNote={<p>This paper explores the origins of the Indian medical nosology involving the three <em>doṣas</em> 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 <em>tridoṣa</em>-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.</p>}, journal={History of Science in South Asia}, author={Zysk, Kenneth G.}, year={2021}, month={Jun.}, pages={1–29} }