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A conceptual assimilation between Ayurveda and Buddhist Theories

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dc.contributor.author Kulasinghe, W.B.W.
dc.contributor.author Kulanatha, I.G.P.R.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-03-02T06:47:14Z
dc.date.available 2017-03-02T06:47:14Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.citation Kulasinghe, W.B.W. and Kulanatha, I.G.P.R. 2017. A conceptual assimilation between Ayurveda and Buddhist Theories. International Conference on Buddhism and Jainism in Early Historic Asia, 16th – 17th February 2017, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 47. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-704-025-7
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/16625
dc.description.abstract "Vedana"is a kind of feeling experiencing may possiblyin good or bad and not eternal same as the world.Uprooting "vedana" exclusively has elaborated by Lord Buddhism rather than any profounder of any tradition. Ayurveda reasoning for all kind ofpain is intellectual blasphemy as a single cause in comparatively with Buddhist theories where saying that the untamed main three windows mind,body and the word (Sitha,Kaya,Vachanaya) causing for its origin.Also it is a bodily signal of a disease represents through aggravated doshaVata. Aim of this research is to compare and analyze the facts related to the term Vedana in Budhdhismwith exploring themultiple meaning of the term. Secondly to reveal hypothetically established matters in Buddhism for curing all kinds of vedana. Finally to establish the theories those compatible in both the traditions in the aspect of enlighten the context of vedana or suffering the being in the path of its elimination. Research carried out through scanning for relevant chapters of main three treaties of Ayurveda and enormously insutra and AbhidhammaPitaka in Thripitaka discussingwithscholarly monks. The significance of finding was the term "Dukkha" used in Ayurveda in general to elaborate disease condition. The term Vedanahas used in the chapter ofKathidhapurusheeyaSharira,DukkhainPurusha (soul) explained in multiple meanings. Basically vedanaor pain is considered in a single sense of unpleasant experience. Ayurveda considers vedanais a sense of a signal comes throughthe mind or the body and in Buddhist theory it is a pain or a pleasure subjected with the tolerance and also depended with the advancement of own mind. Ayurveda and Buddhist explanation in a single sense ofvedanaof a being expresses the level of awareness based practice of mind and relieving the pain even dependent with the development of the mind towards the understanding the reality of the world. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Vedana en_US
dc.subject Dhukka en_US
dc.subject Understanding of the world en_US
dc.subject Suffering of beings en_US
dc.title A conceptual assimilation between Ayurveda and Buddhist Theories en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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