Being human in a Buddhist world : an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet /
Gyatso, Janet.
Being human in a Buddhist world : an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet / Janet Gyatso. - 1 online resource (539 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
In English.
9780231538329 0231538324 0231164963 9780231164962
10.7312/gyat16496 doi
1D6EFEB2-27CE-492D-A4A8-FD41E9959EB7 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt13k0snc JSTOR
Buddhism--History.--Tibet Region
Medicine, Tibetan--History.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional--history
Buddhism--history
Bouddhisme--Histoire.--Tibet historique
Médecine tibétaine--Histoire.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Buddhism--Theravada.
Buddhism
Medicine--Religious aspects--Buddhism
Medicine, Tibetan
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
Tibet Region
Electronic books.
History
BQ7584
294.3/366109515
WZ 70 JT5 / G996b 2015
Being human in a Buddhist world : an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet / Janet Gyatso. - 1 online resource (539 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
In English.
9780231538329 0231538324 0231164963 9780231164962
10.7312/gyat16496 doi
1D6EFEB2-27CE-492D-A4A8-FD41E9959EB7 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt13k0snc JSTOR
Buddhism--History.--Tibet Region
Medicine, Tibetan--History.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional--history
Buddhism--history
Bouddhisme--Histoire.--Tibet historique
Médecine tibétaine--Histoire.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Buddhism--Theravada.
Buddhism
Medicine--Religious aspects--Buddhism
Medicine, Tibetan
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
Tibet Region
Electronic books.
History
BQ7584
294.3/366109515
WZ 70 JT5 / G996b 2015