Being human in a Buddhist world : an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet

Being human in a Buddhist world : an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet / Janet Gyatso.

This volume explores medical thought in Tibet and reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It looks at how Buddhist concepts and values were adapted to medical concerns and highlights important ways in which Buddh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gyatso, Janet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Buddhism > Tibet Region > History.
Medicine, Tibetan > History.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Theravada.
Buddhism
Medicine > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Medicine, Tibetan
Tibet Region
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: In the Capital
  • 1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State
  • 2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of Age
  • Part II: Bones of Contention
  • 3. The Word of the Buddha
  • 4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels. Tantric Knowing
  • 5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the Hand
  • Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at Once
  • Part III: Roots of the Profession
  • 6. Women and Gender
  • 7. The Ethics of Being Human: The Doctor's Formation in a Material Realm
  • Conclusion: Ways and Means for Medicine.

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