Knowledge and context in Tibetan medicine /

Knowledge and context in Tibetan medicine / / edited by William A. McGrath.

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibeta...

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Superior document:Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; volume43
TeilnehmendeR:
McGrath, William A.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; volume43.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XX, 372 pages) :; illustraties ;; 25 cm.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Navigating the Ocean of Tibetan Medical Literature / William A. McGrath
  • A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Bibliography
  • Figures
  • Contributors
  • The Vicissitudes of Meaning in Context
  • A New Sense of (Dark) Humor in Tibet: Brown Phlegm and Black Bile / Henk Blezer
  • A Preliminary Study on the Biography of Yutok Yönten Gönpo the Elder: Reflections on the Origins of Tibetan Medicine / Yang Ga
  • “Secret Medicine” in the Writings of Sanggyé Gyatso: the Encoded Esoteric Material of Therapeutics / Tony Chui
  • Visceral Anatomy as Depicted in Tibetan Medicine / Katharina Sabernig
  • The Modern Biomedical Conception of Cancer and Its Many Potential Correlates in the Tibetan Medical Tradition / Tawni Tidwell
  • Medicine and Religion in Context
  • The Nine-Fold Magical Cord Cycle: Investigating ’Phrul gyi the gu brgu skor, a Wartime Medical Manual / Tsering Samdrup
  • Knowledge, Imagery, and the Treatment of Communicable Disease in the Vase of the Amṛta of Immortality: A Preliminary Analysis of a Nyingma Medical Corpus / Carmen Simioli
  • Tantric Divination and Empirical Diagnosis: a Genealogy of Channel Prasenā Rituals in the Tibetan Medical Tradition / William A. McGrath
  • Madness and the Spirits: Examining the Role of Spirits in Mental Illness in the Tibetan Communities of Darjeeling / Susannah Deane
  • Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills / Barbara Gerke
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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