- BIRTH, LIFE AND DEATH 13
- Introduction to the Principles of Tibetan Medicine 15
- The Nature of the Humours and the Organic Components of the Body 17
- Types of Humours 19
- The Six Main Characteristics of the Wind Humour 20
- The Seven Main Characteristics of the Bile Humour 21
- The Seven Main Characteristics of the Phlegm Humour 22
- Organic Components 28
- BIRTH 31
- The Causes of Conception 33
- The Fertile Period 34
- Signs of Pregnancy 34
- The Formation of the Fetus in the Womb 35
- Functions of the Elements in the Fetus 37
- Secondary Causes for the Gender of the Fetus 38
- The Stages of Intrauterine Development 39
- The Nature of the Fetal Development 41
- Diet and Behavior of the Pregnant Woman 44
- Monitoring the Course of the Pregnancy 47
- Calculation of the Duration of Pregnancy 48
- Signs Indicating the Male or Female Gender of the Child 49
- How to Prepare for Childbirth 50
- How to Assist Childbirth 51
- How to Attend to the Newborn Baby 53
- LIFE 55
- Living in Good Health 57
- The Nature of the Three Doors of the Individual 57
- The Nature of the Body and the Maintenance of its Life 59 The Development of the Metabolic Heat of the Organic Components
- that Sustain Life 60
- The Nature of the Humours and Organic Components 62
- How Disturbances of the Humours and Organic Components Arise 62 The Secondary Causes of Disturbances of the Humours and Organic
- Components 64
- The Meaning of Accumulation, Manifestation and Pacification 68 How the Three Periods of Life are Related to the Humours and their
- Disturbing Factors 68 How the Seasons are Related to the Humours and their Disturbing
- Factors 69
- The Meaning of Lack, Excess and Conflict 73
- The Contact of the Senses with Objects 74
- Behavior of Body, Voice and Mind 75
- Critical Illnesses 81
- How to Observe a Correct Daily Behavior 82
- Harmful Food Combinations 83
- Beneficial and Harmful Aspects of Foods 84
- Eating the Right Amount 99
- Aspects of Correct Behavior 100
- The Properties and Qualities of Tastes 105
- The Nature of the Six Tastes 106
- The Eight Qualities 107
- The Seventeen Curative Properties of Foods 108
- The Continuity of Correct Presence and Awareness 111
- The Need to Diminish Selfishness 115
- The Need to Free Ourselves of Worries 116
- The Nature of Dream 117
- The Need to Be Content with Our Lot 118
- The Fundamental Nature of Mind 119
- Self-perfected Primordial Potentiality 120
- Instant Presence 122
- The Principle of Primordial Total Perfection or Ati Dzogpa Chenpo 125
- DEATH 129
- The Nature of Death 131
- The Certainty of Death 131
- No Certainty as to the Moment of Death 132
- No Certainty as to the Secondary Causes of Death 133
- The Fear of Death is Useless 134
- The Moment of Death 134
- The Intermediate State between Birth and Death 136
- The Intermediate State of the Moment of Death 138
- The Intermediate State of the Real Condition 144
- Instant Presence which Enters into Light 146
- Light which Enters into Instant Presence 147
- The Vision of Self-perfection that is the Final Realization 149
- The Intermediate State of Existence 153
- Index of Tibetan Terms 161
- Selected Bibliography 165