Buddhism and Medicine : : An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources / / ed. by C. Pierce Salguero.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Arai, Paula K. R.,; Bahir, Cody R.,; Bright, Jenny,; Capitanio, Joshua,; Cheung, Kin,; Chilson, Clark,; Coderey, Céline,; Cook, Joanna,; Deane, Susannah,; Dubois, Thomas David,; Hunter, Assunta,; Irwin, Anthony Lovenheim,; Jamyang, Charles,; Joffe, Ben P.,; Koleilat, Lina,; McGrath, William A.,; McKinley, Alexander,; McLaughlin, Levi,; McMahan, David L.,; Michon, Nathan Jishin,; Mukharji, Projit Bihari,; Noh, Minjung,; Norov, Batsaikhan,; Patton, Thomas Nathan,; Salguero, C. Pierce,; Scheid, Volker,; Schrempf, Mona,; Scott, Gregory Adam,; Stein, Justin B.,; Triplett, Katja,; Usukhbayar, Batchimeg,; Wallace, Vesna A.,; Wu, Emily S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Salguero, C. Pierce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 20 b&w photographs

Over the centuries, Buddhist ideas have influenced medical thought and practice in complex and varied ways in diverse regions and cultures. A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Early Modernity
• 1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians' Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides
• 2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin's Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century)
• 3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century: China Three Prefaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585-1664)
• 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)
• 5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan's "On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord" (1869)
• 6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851)
• 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
• Ruptures and Reconciliations
• 8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century)
• 9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu's "Buddhism and Science" (1923) and Ding Fubao's Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920)
• 10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu's Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952)
• 11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist's Paintings of the Heart Sūtra
• 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)
• 13. Science and Authority in Tibetan Medicine: Gönpokyap's "Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body" (2008)
• 14. "We Will Live Long Lives and Attain Great Health": Monk Changlyu's The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014)
• Hybridities and Innovations
• 15. Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang's Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966)
• 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)
• 17. Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy
• 18. Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō's "Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains" (2014)
• 19. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts
• Meditation and Mental Health
• 20. Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro's Naikan and Medicine (1979)
• 21. A Contemporary Shingon Priest's Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Ōshita Daien (2006-2016)
• 22. Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group, Mindful UK (2015)
• 23. Medicalizing Sŏn Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sŭnim
• 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)
• Crossing Boundaries
• 25. Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha's The Mantrayāna of Rārh (1979)
• 26. Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China
• 27. Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer
• 28. "We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods": Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman
• 29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters:Avalokiteśvara Joins the New Age Pantheon
• Buddhist Healing in Practice
• 30. Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional: Medicine An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer
• 31. Burmese Alchemy in Practice: Master U Shein's Healing Practice
• 32. Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Teinlay P. Trogawa
• 33. Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan: With a Translation of His "Edible Letters"
• 34. Japanese Buddhist Women's "Way of Healing"
• 35. Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia
• Geographical Table of Contents
• Glossary
• References
• Contributors
• Index