Wörterbuch der mittelalterlichen indischen Alchemie

Hellwig, Oliver

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“…85 Maurer 2001 For an alchemical preparation with human excrement, see Hellwig 2009: 39. 87 With droppings from pigeons and crows mixed with the bile of a particular type of female crane, coral, poison and certain other substances, a so-called kṣepavedha is prepared to improve erections and virility, see Hellwig 2009: 212-214. 88 Men-Tsee-Khang 2008.…”

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Faeces and the Old Sole of a Shoe: Remedies of the Dreckapotheke

Maurer

2017

Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques

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In Tibetan horse medicine, the so-called Dreckapotheke remedies were very commonly an added ingredient in the preparation of remedies. In traditional Tibetan medicine, the medical ingredients are classified according to their origin. A category called Dreckapotheke however does not exist and there is no direct equivalent in the Tibetan language for this term. Nevertheless, Tibetan medicine identifies many ingredients that can be categorised as such, among these excrement, dirt and filth. Many of these that are introduced here are not used these days, and may never have been at all. The analysis of how this type of medicine is described in the Tibetan texts in this article is divided into several sections. After a general introduction to these types of ingredients, I provide a short description of the manuscripts on Tibetan horse medicine that survey diseases and treatments. This is followed by a survey of the Dreckapotheke remedies as outlined in chapter twenty of the most authoritative Tibetan text on human medicine, the Four Tantras (rGyud bzhi) with its commentary by the regent of the Fifth Dalai Lama Sanggye Gyatso (Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho). The main part of the article describes the use of these substances as found in the texts on horse medicine. I introduce its use in the German tradition, discuss the origin of these remedies and the naming of the ingredients. This article provides the basis for further research on the Dreckapotheke remedies.

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“…62 Men-Tsee-Khang 2008: 218. In alchemical recipes, sea shell, oyster und cowrie shell with mercury are, for example, used to prepare a so-called kṣārabandha, a cure against constipation and colics in the intestines, seeHellwig 2009: 211. 63 Men-Tsee-Khang 2008…”

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Faeces and the Old Sole of a Shoe: Remedies of the Dreckapotheke

Maurer

2017

Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques

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“…Thus the term bidumaṯi of the Gāndhārī text can be connected with Skt. bindukinī or binduka , the latter cited by Hellwig (2009: 150) under the category “poison”. Other terms such as pāṇḍara, karaṇḍa and śrīmatī are attested in the dictionaries more generally as a “kind of plant” (see PW s.vv.).…”

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The evolution of the Buddhistrakṣāgenre in the light of new evidence from Gandhāra: The **Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtra*from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts

Strauch

2014

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This article examines the *Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtra, a unique text in the rakṣā genre of Buddhist literature dating to the early centuries of the common era. In addition to exploring special features of the vocabulary and meaning of this text, the article places the *Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtra in the wider context of Buddhist textual and ritual practice in the first, second and third centuries ce.

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“…The reader who has German and wishes to know more about this arcane world of Indian alchemy is referred to Hellwig 2009. case. Torella argues (email communication, 10 July 2014) that the saṃskāras of śūnyādi-dehāntam cannot be entirely dissolved here because then there would be no possibility of samāveśa, since, consciousness having become a single unitary mass, there would be nothing that could enter or be entered (cf.…”

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Alchemical Metaphors for Spiritual Transformation in Abhinavagupta’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī and Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛtivimarśinī

Wallis¹

2020

Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions

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Wörterbuch der mittelalterlichen indischen Alchemie

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Faeces and the Old Sole of a Shoe: Remedies of the Dreckapotheke

Faeces and the Old Sole of a Shoe: Remedies of the Dreckapotheke

The evolution of the Buddhistrakṣāgenre in the light of new evidence from Gandhāra: The **Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtra*from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts

Alchemical Metaphors for Spiritual Transformation in Abhinavagupta’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī and Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛtivimarśinī

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Wörterbuch der mittelalterlichen indischen Alchemie

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Faeces and the Old Sole of a Shoe: Remedies of the Dreckapotheke

Faeces and the Old Sole of a Shoe: Remedies of the Dreckapotheke

The evolution of the Buddhistrakṣāgenre in the light of new evidence from Gandhāra: The *Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtrafrom the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts

Alchemical Metaphors for Spiritual Transformation in Abhinavagupta’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī and Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛtivimarśinī

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The evolution of the Buddhistrakṣāgenre in the light of new evidence from Gandhāra: The **Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtra*from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts