| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 372 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; volume 43 |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 43.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Introduction Navigating the Ocean of Tibetan Medical Literature; A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Bibliography; Figures; Contributors; Part 1 The Vicissitudes of Meaning in Context; Chapter 1 A New Sense of (Dark) Humor in Tibet: Brown Phlegm and Black Bile; Chapter 2 A Preliminary Study on the Biography of Yutok Yönten Gönpo the Elder: Reflections on the Origins of Tibetan Medicine; Chapter 3 "Secret Medicine" in the Writings of Sanggyé Gyatso: the Encoded Esoteric Material of Therapeutics; Chapter 4 Visceral Anatomy as Depicted in Tibetan Medicine |
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Chapter 5 The Modern Biomedical Conception of Cancerand Its Many Potential Correlates in the Tibetan Medical TraditionPart 2 Medicine and Religion in Context; Chapter 6 The Nine-Fold Magical Cord Cycle: Investigating 'Phrul gyi the gu brgu skor, a Wartime Medical Manual; Chapter 7 Knowledge, Imagery, and the Treatment of Communicable Disease in the Vase of the Amṛta of Immortality: A Preliminary Analysis of a Nyingma Medical Corpus; Chapter 8 Tantric Divination and Empirical Diagnosis: a Genealogy of Channel Prasenā Rituals in the Tibetan Medical Tradition |
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Chapter 9 Madness and the Spirits: Examining the Role of Spirits in Mental Illness in the Tibetan Communities of DarjeelingChapter 10 Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills; Index |
| Summary |
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People's Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine. Contributors include: Henk W.A. Blezer, Yang Ga, Tony Chui, Katharina Sabernig, Tawni Tidwell, Tsering Samdrup, Carmen Simioli, William A. McGrath, Susannah Deane and Barbara Gerke |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (Ebook Central, viewed on June 1, 2020) |
| Subject |
Medicine, Tibetan.
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Medicine, Tibetan -- History
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Medicine, Tibetan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McGrath, William A., editor
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| LC no. |
2019980939 |
| ISBN |
9789004404441 |
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9004404449 |
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