Illness and enlightenment: exploring Tibetan perspectives on madness in text and everyday life
"Tibetan conception of nyoné - 'madness'- encompasses a broad range of ideas about mind and body and an individual's place in the world. Here, Tantric and medical understandings of mind-body structure and (dys)functioning, and engagements with non-human entities, inform complex n...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York Oxford
Berghahn
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Amdo
/ Mental health
/ Everyday life
/ Art of healing (motif)
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Mind and body (China) (Tibet Autonomous Region)
B Medicine, Tibetan B Mental Illness Religious aspects Buddhism B Mind and body Religious aspects Buddhism B Mental Illness Alternative treatment (China) (Tibet Autonomous Region) |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "Tibetan conception of nyoné - 'madness'- encompasses a broad range of ideas about mind and body and an individual's place in the world. Here, Tantric and medical understandings of mind-body structure and (dys)functioning, and engagements with non-human entities, inform complex notions of the prevention, causation, and treatment of madness as an illness, as well as understandings of 'madness' as an indicator of Buddhist or Bon enlightenment. This work brings together interview material from ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, with an examination of Tibetan medical and religious texts, to explore the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships"-- Provided by publisher Heart, wind and mind: Discussions on Nyoné in contemporary Amdo -- Heart, mind or wind? Tibetan medical conceptions of mind, mental health and Nyoné -- Wind, mind and Nyoné in Tibetan Tantra -- Madness-causing spirits, Tantric deities and 'impurities' in contemporary Amdo -- Uninvited: Spirits, deities and 'pollution' in everyday life and illness -- Invoking the gods: Spirits and deities in Tantric practice. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 233 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80539-840-0 |
