UID:
edocfu_9959173489702883
Format:
1 online resource :
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20 b&w photographs
ISBN:
9780231548304
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Over the centuries, Buddhist ideas have influenced medical thought and practice in complex and varied ways in diverse regions and cultures. A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine.Covering the early modern period to the present, this anthology focuses on the many ways Buddhism and medicine were shaped by the forces of colonialism, science, and globalization, as well as ruptures and reconciliations between tradition and modernity. Editor C. Pierce Salguero and an international collection of scholars highlight diversity and innovation in the encounters between Buddhist and medical thought. The chapters contain a wide range of sources presenting different perspectives rooted in distinct times and places, including translations of published and unpublished documents and transcripts of ethnographic interviews as well as accounts by missionaries and colonial authorities and materials from the contemporary United States and United Kingdom. Together, these varied sources illustrate the many intersections of Buddhism and medicine in the past and how this nexus continues to be crucial in today’s global context.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction /
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Early Modernity --
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1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians’ Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides /
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2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin’s Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century) /
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3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century: China Three Prefaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585–1664) /
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4. An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian Treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsültim’s “The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven’s White Flower” (1785) /
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5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan’s “On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord” (1869) /
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6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851) /
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7. “Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition”: Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era /
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Ruptures and Reconciliations --
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8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century) /
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9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu’s “Buddhism and Science” (1923) and Ding Fubao’s Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920) /
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10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu’s Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952) /
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11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist’s Paintings of the Heart Sūtra /
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12. Mantras for Modernity: Nida Chenagtsang’s “Mantra Healing Is an Indispensable Branch of Tibetan Traditional Medicine” (2003) and “A Rough Explanation of How Mantras Work” (2015) /
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13. Science and Authority in Tibetan Medicine: Gönpokyap’s “Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body” (2008) /
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14. “We Will Live Long Lives and Attain Great Health”: Monk Changlyu’s The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014) /
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Hybridities and Innovations --
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15. Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang’s Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966) /
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16. Making a Modern Image of Jīvaka: “First Encounters with Jīvaka Komārabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image” (1969) /
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17. Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy /
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18. Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō’s “Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains” (2014) /
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19. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts /
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Meditation and Mental Health --
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20. Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro’s Naikan and Medicine (1979) /
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21. A Contemporary Shingon Priest’s Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Ōshita Daien (2006–2016) /
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22. Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group, Mindful UK (2015) /
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23. Medicalizing Sŏn Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sŭnim /
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24. Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013) 24. Misuses of Mindfulness Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013) /
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Crossing Boundaries --
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25. Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha’s The Mantrayāna of Rārh (1979) /
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26. Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China /
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27. Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer /
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28. “We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods”: Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman /
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29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters:Avalokiteśvara Joins the New Age Pantheon /
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Buddhist Healing in Practice --
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30. Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional: Medicine An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer /
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31. Burmese Alchemy in Practice: Master U Shein’s Healing Practice /
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32. Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Teinlay P. Trogawa /
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33. Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan: With a Translation of His “Edible Letters” /
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34. Japanese Buddhist Women’s “Way of Healing” /
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35. Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia /
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Geographical Table of Contents --
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Glossary --
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References --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/salg18936
