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Buddhism and Medicine
An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources
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Edited by:
C. Pierce Salguero
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English
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2019
About this book
A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine covering the early modern period to the present.
Author / Editor information
C. Pierce Salguero is associate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington College. He is the editor of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (Columbia, 2017) and the author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (2014) and Traditional Thai Medicine (2016).
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Richard K. Payne, author of Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of Mantra:
Health and illness have always been concerns of practitioners. These translations of exemplary medical texts from the recent past demonstrate the enduring medical tradition within Buddhism. Not merely a religious tradition, or a system of doctrinal claims, or the texts that contain those claims and their philosophic rationales, Buddhism is effectively a culture in its own right.
Health and illness have always been concerns of practitioners. These translations of exemplary medical texts from the recent past demonstrate the enduring medical tradition within Buddhism. Not merely a religious tradition, or a system of doctrinal claims, or the texts that contain those claims and their philosophic rationales, Buddhism is effectively a culture in its own right.
Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Chicago:
In this elegant sourcebook, C. Pierce Salguero and his collaborators demonstrate, with unprecedented scope, how very diverse are the world's Buddhisms and the world's medicines. Neither romanticizing nor dismissing the contributions of Asian religion to the history of healing, this project teaches us much about how humans have dealt with suffering, today and in the past.
Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand:
This excellent volume should be an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of Buddhism and science, medicine, magic, and healing. By drawing on a wide variety of both textual and ethnographic sources from colonial critiques to modern Facebook posts from across the Buddhist world, the editor and his contributors have provided a rare view into the study of Buddhism and medicine that goes far beyond the contemporary study of mindfulness and well-being.
Robert H. Sharf, D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley:
Buddhism and Medicine is an invaluable sourcebook for the complex interplay between religion and medicine in Asia. It breaks ground on an astonishing range of topics and materials, and should be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
xv - Early Modernity
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1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians’ Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides
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2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin’s Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century)
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3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century: China Three Prefaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585–1664)
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4. An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian Treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsültim’s “The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven’s White Flower” (1785)
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5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan’s “On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord” (1869)
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6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851)
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7. “Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition”: Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era
52 - Ruptures and Reconciliations
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8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century)
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9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu’s “Buddhism and Science” (1923) and Ding Fubao’s Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920)
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10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu’s Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952)
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11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist’s Paintings of the Heart Sūtra
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12. Mantras for Modernity: Nida Chenagtsang’s “Mantra Healing Is an Indispensable Branch of Tibetan Traditional Medicine” (2003) and “A Rough Explanation of How Mantras Work” (2015)
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13. Science and Authority in Tibetan Medicine: Gönpokyap’s “Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body” (2008)
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14. “We Will Live Long Lives and Attain Great Health”: Monk Changlyu’s The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014)
127 - Hybridities and Innovations
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15. Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang’s Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966)
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16. Making a Modern Image of Jīvaka: “First Encounters with Jīvaka Komārabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image” (1969)
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17. Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy
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18. Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō’s “Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains” (2014)
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19. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts
177 - Meditation and Mental Health
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20. Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro’s Naikan and Medicine (1979)
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21. A Contemporary Shingon Priest’s Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Ōshita Daien (2006–2016)
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22. Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group, Mindful UK (2015)
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23. Medicalizing Sŏn Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sŭnim
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24. Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013) 24. Misuses of Mindfulness Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013)
221 - Crossing Boundaries
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25. Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha’s The Mantrayāna of Rārh (1979)
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26. Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China
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27. Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer
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28. “We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods”: Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman
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29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters:Avalokiteśvara Joins the New Age Pantheon
264 - Buddhist Healing in Practice
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30. Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional: Medicine An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer
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31. Burmese Alchemy in Practice: Master U Shein’s Healing Practice
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32. Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Teinlay P. Trogawa
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33. Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan: With a Translation of His “Edible Letters”
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34. Japanese Buddhist Women’s “Way of Healing”
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35. Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia
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Geographical Table of Contents
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Glossary
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References
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Contributors
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Index
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