Review state: editorial draft. The current library is an initial learning edition. Source links identify starting material; they do not imply expert endorsement or completed claim-by-claim review.
Primary text
A claim tied to a named traditional passage. The original text and the translator’s interpretation should be distinguished.
Traditional commentary
An interpretation given by a named commentator, teacher or lineage. Acceptance within one school does not imply agreement across schools.
Comparative interpretation
An editor’s comparison between traditions. The relationship must be explained and its limits recorded.
Practitioner report
A person’s account of their own experience. Subjective experience is not, by itself, proof of a universal mechanism.
Scientific evidence
A claim tied to identifiable research, with methods, populations, limitations and study quality stated.
Speculative
A hypothesis or symbolic association that has not been established as a historical, scientific or doctrinal fact.
Keep a term in its home context
Prāṇa, qi, jīva and Śakti are not interchangeable labels. When two terms seem to do similar work, call the connection a rough functional parallel and explain the part that does not overlap.
Make interpretation visible
Our readable translations may choose an English phrase for clarity. The literal view makes some of those choices easier to inspect. Neither version should be presented as an authoritative translation before language and textual review.
Separate the map from the body
Subtle-body illustrations are conceptual and traditional maps. This site does not claim that a centre or channel is an independently measured anatomical structure.
What a reviewed article will need
A named editor or contributor, an identified edition, precise passage references, attributed translations, claim-level support, and a recorded reviewer. These initial drafts have not reached that stage.
Transliteration
We retain familiar diacritics in Sanskrit terms, readable transliterations for Tamil, and pinyin where supplied for Chinese. Search also recognizes unaccented Latin spellings. Original scripts should be checked against the source when editions or spelling conventions differ.
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