17. Two Sutras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments xvii
4. Abbreviations xix
5. Introduction xxi
6. Doctrinal Considerations
7. 1. Illness, Cure, and Care Selections from the Pali Canon 3
8. 2. The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhist Discourse 12
9. 3. Curing/Curating Illness: Selections from the Chapter on the "Sufferings of Illness" from A Grove of Pearls from the Garden of Dharma 20
10. 4 . Understanding the Dosa Summary of the Art of Medicine from the Sutra of Golden Light 30
11. 5. Fetal Suffering in the Descent Into the Womb Sutra 41
12. 6. Health and Sickness of Body and Mind: Selections from the Yogācāra-bhūmi 49
13. 7. Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature ofillness and Its Manifestations 61
14. 9. Liberating the Whole World: Sudhana's Meeting with Samantanetra from the Sūtra of the Entry Into the Realm of Reality 92
15. HEALING AND MONASTIC DISCIPLINE
16. 10. Medical Practice as Wrong Livelihood: Selections from the Pāli Discourses, Vinaya, and Commentaries 105
17. 11. Nuns, Laywomen, and Healing: CONTENTS lX Three Rules from a Sanskrit Nuns' Disciplinary Code 113
18. 12. Stories of Healing from the Section on Medicines in the Pali Vinaya 118
19. Rules on Medicines from the Five-Part Vinaya of the Mahisasaka School 125
20. 14. Food and Medicine in the Chinese Vinayas: Daoxuan's Emended Commentary on Monastic Practices from the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya 130
21. 15. Toilet Care in Buddhist Monasteries: Health, Decency, and Ritual 137
22. 16. Health Care in Indian Monasteries: Selections from Yijing's Record of the Inner Law Sent Home from the Southern Seas 145
23. BUDDHIST HEALERS
24. 17. Two Sutras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon 163
25. 18. The Buddha Heals: Past and Present Lives 170
26. 19. The Buddha's Past Life as a Snakebite Doctor: The Visa-vantajātaka 180
27. 20. The Training and Treatments of an Indian Doctor in a Buddhist Text: A Sanskrit Biography of Jivaka 184
28. 21. A Selection of Buddhist Healing Narratives from East Asia C. Pierce Salguero 205
29. 22. The Buddha and the Bath Water: How the Bodhisattva Gyoki Founded Koya Temple 219
30. 23. Esoteric Ritual Remedies: Kukai's Cures for Emperor Konin 222
31. 24. "The Grief of Kings Is the Suffering of Their Subjects": A Cambodian King's Twelfth-Century Network of Hospitals 226
32. HEALING RITES
33. 25. Help for the Sick, the Dying, and the Misbegotten: A Sanskrit Version of the Sutra of Bhaisajyaguru 235
34. 26. The Sutra on the Dharani of the Vast, Complete, and Unobstructed Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokite§vara with a Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes 252
35. 27. Tantric Medicine in a Buddhist Proto-Tantra 286
36. 28. Healing Dharanis A Collection of Medieval Spells from the Taisho Tripitaka 292
37. 29. Seals of the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Talismanic Seal Manual from Dunhuang 304
38. 30. "The Ritual Altar of Kundali Vajra for Treating Illnesses" from the Collected Dharani Sutras 314
39. 31. Curing with Karma and Confession: Two Short Liturgies from Dunhuang 322
40. 32. Childbirth in Early Medieval Japan: Ritual Economies and Medical Emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort's Labor 336
41. 33. The Ox-Bezoar Empowerment for Fertility and Safe Childbirth: Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections 351
42. 34. The Verses on the Victor's Armor: A Pali Text Used for Protection and Healing in Thailand 358
43. 35. Selections from a Mongolian Manual of Buddhist Medicine 363
44. MEDITATION AS CURE AND ILLNESS
45. 36. Healing Sicknesses Caused by Meditation: "The Enveloping Butter Contemplation" from the Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness 373
46. 37. Healing with Meditation: "Treating Illness" from Zhiyi's Shorter Treatise on Samatha and Vipasyana 382
47. 38. Getting Sick Over Nothing: Hyesim and Hakuin on the Maladies of Meditation 390
48. 39. Buddhist Method as Medicine: The Chan Materia Medica and Its Ming Dynasty Elaboration 398
49. 40. Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life: Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity 405
50. 41. Rangjung Dorje's Key to the Essential Pointsof Wind and Mind 413
51. 42. Treating Disorders of the Subtle Winds in Tibetan Buddhism 418
52. 43. How to Deal with Wind Illnesses: Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia 425
53. HYBRIDITY IN BUDDHIST HEALING
54. 44. Correlative Cosmology, Moral Rectitude, and Buddhist Notions of Health: Selections from the Sutra of Trapusa and Bhallika 433
55. 45. Apotropaic Substances as Medicine in Buddhist Healing Methods: Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Five Sciences 441
56. 46. Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans: Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes 454
57. 47. ''The Mysterious Names on the Hands and Fingers": Healing Hand Mnemonics in Medieval Chinese Buddhism 478
58. 48. Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma's Treasure of the Palm 486
59. 49. Buddhist Health, Diet, and Sex Advice from Ancient Korea 494
60. 50. Vessel Examination in the Medicine of the Moon King 501
61. 51. Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease 514
62. BUDDHISM AND THE MEDICAL TRADITIONS
63. 52. "Indian Massage" from Sun Simiao's Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 533
64. 53. Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics: "The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician" from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 538
65. 54. Using the Golden Needle: Nagaljuna Bodhisattva's Ophthalmological Treatise and Other Sources in the Essentials of Medical Treatment 543
66. 55. Buddhism in Choson Dynasty Medical Compilations 549
67. 56. Determining Karmic Illness: Kajiwara Shozen's Treatment of Rai/Leprosy in Book of the Simple Physician 553
68. 57. Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician TueTinh 561
69. 58. The Dong Nhan Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy's Medical Encyclopedia 569
70. 59. An Abhidhamma Perspective: Causes of Illness in a Burmese Buddhist Medical System 575
71. 60.Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises 583
72. 61. The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge 593
73. 62. Did the Buddha Really Author the Classic Tibetan Medical Text? A Critical Examination from The Lamp to Dispel Darkness 602
74. Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents 609
75. Glossary 615
76. References 629
77. List of Contributors 667
78. Index 675