Tummo

Unusually for a meditative claim, this one has been physically measured: a Harvard research team recorded genuine rises in practitioners' finger and toe temperature during the practice and published the results in a major scientific journal in 1982.

The Six Yogas of Nāropa (11th c.), transmitted through Marpa; Herbert Benson et al., Nature, vol. 295 (1982)

A Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice that generates intense inner heat, first among the Six Yogas of Nāropa.

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