Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
Critically exploring scientific thought and its relation to religion in traditional Tibetan medicine, Being Human expands our sense of Tibetan cultural history, unpacking the intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious ideals during the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama. Studying the adaptat...
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2015
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| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Technical Note; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: In the Capital; 1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State; 2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of Age; Part II: Bones of Contention; 3. The Word of the Buddha; 4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels. Tantric Knowing; 5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the Hand; Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at Once; Part III: Roots of the Profession; 6. Women and Gender |
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