| Description |
1 online resource (539 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 Buddhism played a role in the development of Asian and global civilisation. It ultimately finds that Tibetan medical scholars absorbed ethical and epistemological categories from Buddhism yet shied away from ideal systems and absolutes, instead embracing the imperfectability of the human condition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Tibet Region -- History
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Medicine, Tibetan -- History
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Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- history
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Buddhism -- history
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Theravada.
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Buddhism
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Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
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Medicine, Tibetan
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| SUBJECT |
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) |
| Subject |
Tibet Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231538329 |
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0231538324 |
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0231164963 |
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9780231164962 |
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