Article ID: CBB028748638

Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia: (2017)

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Wild and diverse outcomes are associated with transmutational practices: the prolongation of life, the recovery of youth, the cure of diseases, invincibility, immortality, enlightenment, liberation from the cycle of rebirths, and unending bliss. This range of outcomes is linked to specific practices taught in separate traditions and lineages in medical, alchemical, yogic and tantric milieus across South and Inner Asia. These practices can be individual or collective, esoteric or secular, and occur in different places from hospital to village to monastery; they involve transmutations of substances as well as transmutations of the body. Every expression by a particular lineage has a distinguishing articulation. Yet there are also very clear commonalities and interconnections between the traditions’ aims, methods and expected results. In this special issue of HSSA, we examine transmutational practices and their underlying concepts in this wider context of South and Inner Asian culture. How do these practices and ideas connect and cross-fertilise? And conversely, how are they delineated and distinct?

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Article Barbara Gerke (2017) Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics. History of Science in South Asia (pp. 204-233). unapi

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Article Anna Sehnalova (2017) Tibetan Bonpo Mendrup: The Precious Formula’s Transmission. History of Science in South Asia (pp. 143-180). unapi

Article Ilona Barbara Kędzia (2017) Mastering Deathlessness:. History of Science in South Asia (pp. 121-142). unapi

Article Suzanne Newcombe (2017) Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa:. History of Science in South Asia (pp. 85-120). unapi

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Article Christèle Barois (2017) Stretching Out Life, Maintaining the Body: Part I - Vayas in Medical Literature. History of Science in South Asia (pp. 37-65). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mukharji, Projit Bihari
Brescius, Moritz von
Cantwell, Cathy
Susanne Schmidt
Rossi, Donatella
Nathan, Marco J.
Concepts
Aging
Development; growth; life; death
Medicine
Immortality
Death
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
16th century
21st century
20th century, late
Renaissance
Places
South Asia
Tibet
Italy
Germany
Central Asia
United States
Institutions
East India Company (English)
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