Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan /

Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan / / ed. by Andrew Macomber, C. Pierce Salguero.

From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
MitwirkendeR:
Andreeva, Anna,
Despeux, Catherine,
Macomber, Andrew,
Ng, Zhiru,
Richter, Antje,
Salguero, C. Pierce,
Zhiru, Shi,
HerausgeberIn:
Macomber, Andrew,
Salguero, C. Pierce,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 10 color, 5 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. “A Flock of Ghosts Bursting Forth and Scattering”: Healing Narratives in a Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Hagiography
  • 2. Teaching from the Sickbed: Ideas of Illness and Healing in the Vimalakīrti Sūtra and Their Reception in Medieval Chinese Literature
  • 3. Lighting Lamps to Prolong Life: Ritual Healing and the Bhaiṣajyaguru Cult in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
  • 4. Buddhist Healing Practices at Dunhuang in the Medieval Period
  • 5. Empowering the Pregnancy Sash in Medieval Japan
  • 6. Ritualizing Moxibustion in the Early Medieval Tendai-Jimon Lineage
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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