Arguing over the Buddhist Pedigree of Tibetan Medicine: A Case Study of Empirical Observation and Traditional Learning in 16th- and 17th-Century Tibet
This article examines the relationship between the practice and theory of medicine and Buddhism in premodern Tibet. It considers a polemical text composed by the 16th-17th-century Tibetan physician and tantric Buddhist expert Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen, intending to prove the Buddhist canonical status...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 9 |
| Further subjects: | B
Four Medical Tantras
B Sokdokpa B Tantra B rgyud bzhi bka' sgrub B Apologia B Polemics B premodern Tibet B Buddhism and medicine |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
