Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the way in which rlung ("wind, breath") functions as a mode of explanation for what Western medicine regards as "psychiatric" illness, based on field research on the topic of mental health, illness, and healing conducted within a Tibetan population in Darjeeling, northeast India. The article explores this notion of rlung and its relationship to body and mind, in order to examine its role in the causation and treatment of various forms of "mental illness", before analysing some similarities and differences between rlung-related categories and biomedical classifications of mental illness.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 708-724 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of Religion and Health |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 23 Feb 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jun 2019 |
Keywords
- Medicine
- Tibet
- Sowa Rigpa
- psychiatric
- mind
- Mental illness
- Mental health
- rlung
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Deane, rLung, mind and mental health (June 2018)
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