Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines:Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by Evans-Wentz W. Y. & Marett R. R. & Lopez Donald S

Author:Evans-Wentz, W. Y. & Marett, R. R. & Lopez, Donald S. [Evans-Wentz, W. Y.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-09-28T03:00:00+00:00

VII. THE ORIGIN OF DISEASE ACCORDING TO THE LĀMAS

Inasmuch as the Mystery-Play, like certain aspects of the Chöd Rite, presented more particularly by the second of the two manuscripts, thus appears to be fundamentally a ritual for the driving out of demons and evil influences and the consequent curing of ills both in man individually and in man collectively as the State, it is of importance at this point to consider how Lāmaism views disease.

The Lāmas maintain that there are three chief sources of disease, namely, lack of harmony in the functioning of the nervous system, in the flow of bile, and in the circulation of the phlegm or ‘airs’ (which are the vital-forces constituting by their measure of distribution in the body the various temperaments). The Lāmas also hold that external stimuli, emanating from spiritual beings, especially in relation to planetary and other astrological influences, can affect a human being, an animal or crops, as well as the nation, for good or ill, because all sentient creatures are, like the stars and planets, Sun and Moon, inseparably related and, in reality, an indivisible unity. Hence, whatever affects the individual affects the whole. Astrology is. therefore, for the Tibetans, as for all peoples of the Orient, and for a growing number of its adherents throughout the Occident, a subject of profound study, upon right understanding of which depends the prosperity of human society.1

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