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.

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Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It further studies...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Gyatso, Janet,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.) :; 51 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A TECHNICAL NOTE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 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
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHIES
  • INDEX

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