Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources
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...
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Columbia University Press
2019
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| Summary: | 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. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Early Modernity -- 1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians' Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides, by Katja Triplett -- 2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin's Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century), by Katja Triplett -- 3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century China: Three Preaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585-1664), by Volker Scheid -- 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), by Batsaikhan Norov, Vesna A. Wallace, and Batchimeg Usukhbayar -- 5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan's "On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord" (1869), by Justin B. Stein -- 6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851), by Alexander McKinley -- 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, by C. Pierce Salguero -- Ruptures and Reconciliations -- 8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century), by Joshua Capitanio -- 9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu's "Buddhism and Science" (1923) and Ding Fubao's Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920), by Gregory Adam Scott -- 10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu's Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952), by William A. McGrath -- 11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist's Paintings of the Heart Sūtra, by Paula K. R. Arai. |
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| ISBN: | 0231548303 |