Yet there are also very clear commonalities and interconnections between the traditions’ aims, methods and expected results. Every expression by a particular lineage has a distinguishing articulation. 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. 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. History of Science in South Asia, Vol 5 No 2 (2017): Special Issue Guest editors: Dagmar Wujastyk, Suzanne Newcombe, and Christèle Barois 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.
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