five winds
“prāṇa etc.”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, vyāna · the five winds
in the texts
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The classification of vital breaths/winds fundamental to the subtle-body physiology taught in the text.
[Knowing] those named prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, and vyāna, and [the five lesser winds] Nāga, Kūrma, Kṛkara, Devadatta, and Dhanañjaya—
Pervading and sustaining, and going and coming and the like—because it pervades all the joints, it is called vyāna (the diffused breath).
Because it carries away wind, urine, feces, and likewise semen and the rest, this is apāna (the down-voiding breath), as the yogins always observe.
San Hyan Mahajnana
The five vital winds (prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, vyāna), identified as the waking element in the body and as constituents of the subtle body.
*Mind, intellect, and egoism, together with the five winds, and the eight vital breaths of all beings, are called the subtle body.
*prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, vyāna*.
There are also what are called the five winds.