Salguero A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-54607-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

This book is a wide-ranging and accessible account of the interplay between Buddhism and medicine over the past two and a half millennia. C. Pierce Salguero traces the intertwining threads linking ideas, practices, and texts from many different times and places.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salguero, C. Pierce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Practices and Doctrinal Perspectives
1. Nikaya Buddhism
2. Mahayana Buddhism
3. Tantric Buddhism
4. Common Questions
Part II: Historical Currents and Transformations
5. Circulations
6. Translations
7. Localizations
8. Modernizations
9. Contemporary Buddhist Medicine
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (Columbia, 2019), among other works.