The Practice of Texts : : Education and Healing in South India / / Anthony Cerulli.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India’s classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1 ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
- Introduction: Gurukulas and Tradition-Making in Modern Ayurveda
- 1 Situating Sanskrit (Texts) in Ayurvedic Education
- 2 Practicing Texts
- 3 Knowledge that Heals, Freely
- 4 From Healing Texts to Ritualized Practice
- 5 Texts in Practice and the Ayurvedic Patient
- Notes
- References
- Index