TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gyatso,Janet
TI  - Being human in a Buddhist world: an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet 
SN  - 9780231538329
AV  - BQ7584 
U1  - 294.3/366109515 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Tibet Region
KW  - History
KW  - Medicine, Tibetan
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Medicine, Tibetan Traditional
KW  - history
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - Tibet historique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Médecine tibétaine
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Theravada
KW  - fast
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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