Jean Filliozat

Jean Filliozat (4 November 1906 in Paris – 27 October 1982 in Paris) was a French writer. He studied medicine and was a physician between 1930 and 1947. He learned Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Tamil. He wrote some important works on the history of Indian medicine. He taught at Collège de France from 1952 to 1978. Quotes It is certain, as S. B. Dikshit and B. G. Tilak have amply emphasized, that it is only thus that one can interpret the statement of SB. In spite of the systematic doubt from Thibaut, Whitney . . . and other authors, who have refused to accept a conclusion arrived at by Dikshit and Tilak, the ancient dates attributed to some Vedic texts, referring to the Pleiads [Krttika], and not only the text of the SB, but also the Buddhist lists . . . point to a real determination of the vernal equinox and of the movement of the Sun through Pleiads. Jean Filliozat (1969) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12 As these dosas, and especially the association between the gall and the fire, are already known in the Vedic literature, the tridosa theory cannot have been borrowed in India from Plato. On the contrary, as during the Persian domination of Greek Asian countries and a part of India, scientific intercourse has been easy, an influence of the Ayurvedic theories on those described by Plato is quite probable. In any way, we have several direct references in the Hippocratic Collection to the borrowing of some Indian drugs and Indian medicinal formulas in Greece. In the period of the expansion of Indian culture toward Central Asia and China, and toward Indo-China and Indonesia beyond the seas, Indian Ayurvedic medicine has been one of the main matters of export, along with astronomy, religions, and arts. Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley. - In search of the cradle of civilization _ new light on ancient India-Quest Books (2011) External links Category:Academics from France Category:Indologists Category:1906 births Category:1982 deaths