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...healers be taught the medicine of the ancient, mystical and slow-to-change East or the medicine of the modern, scientific, restlessly changeful West? India has more licensed practitioners of native medical systems (96,000) than of Western medicine (92,000); the vast majority of these engage in ayurveda (Sanskrit for "the science of life") and bitterly resent the encroachment of Western medicine...
...King George Medical College to join its 1,200 fulltime students in the study of the foundations of modern medicine-bacteriology, pathology, anatomy, diagnosis, and eventually, treatment. But in the afternoons they hiked back across town to the ayurvedic college. There they memorized the 2,000-year-old Sanskrit verses in which this medical lore is frozen...
Bearcats and trips to Europe. She studied Sanskrit at the University of Chicago, and grew interested in Buddhism after her family doctor lent her a book on the subject. By the time she was in her early 205 she had decided that "Christianity fell far snort of what I expected from religion...
Sadhu is the Sanskrit word for "straight," and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted vermilion, shaven bald or mat-haired, they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred teaching, sage advice and examples of the unworldly life. Inevitably another breed of sadhu arose that was anything but straight. Trading on the enormous prestige of the holy men, these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today...
...literate Americans to speak most of the world's tongues. Berlitz Schools in New York are prepared to teach 60 languages, last year taught 37. French is the most popular; Papimento-a Caribbean lingua franca of languages such as Dutch, Spanish, Hindustani-has not yet been requested; Sanskrit has been asked for, but not taught...