ISBN:
9780231189361
Language:
English
Pages:
xxviii, 395 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Buddhism and Medicine
DDC:
294.3/3661
Keywords:
Medicine Sources Religious aspects
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Buddhism
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Early modernity -- On sickness, society and the new self in early Edo Japan: Soshin's Dharma words (17th century) / Katja Triplett -- Buddhism, medicine, and early modernity in seventeenth-century China: three prefaces to the work of Yu Chang (1585-1664) / Volker Scheid -- Buddhist monastic physicians' encounters with the Jesuits in 16th and 17th century Japan, as told from both sides / Katja Triplett -- An 18th century Mongolian treatise on smallpox inoculation: Lobsang Tsültim, 'The practice of preparing medicine for the planting of heaven's white flower' (1785) / Batsaikhan Norov, Vesna A. Wallace, and Batchimeg Usukhbayar -- Psychosomatic Buddhist medicine at the dawn of modern Japan: Hara Tanzan, 'On the difference between the brain and the spinal cord' (1869) / Justin B. Stein -- No sympathy for the devils: a colonial polemic against Yak'a healing rituals (1851) / Alexander McKinley -- 'Enveloped in the deep darkness of ignorance and superstition': 19th and early 20th century Western observers of Buddhism and medicine in the Kingdom of Siam / C. Pierce Salguero -- Reconciling ruptures -- Three Tibetan Buddhist texts on the dangers of tobacco (19th to 21st centuries) / Joshua Capitanio -- Buddhism and biomedicine in republican China: Taixu, 'Buddhism and science' (1923) and Ding Fubao, Essentials of Buddhist studies (1920) / Gregory Adam Scott -- Reconciling scripture and surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu, Arranging the tree trunks of healing (1952) / William A. McGrath -- Healing wisdom: an appreciation of a 20th century Japanese scientist's paintings of the heart sutra / Paula K.R. Arai -- Mantras for modernity: Nida Chenagtsang, 'A rough explanation of how mantras work' (2003) and 'Mantra healing as an indispensable branch of Tibetan medicine' (2015) / Ben P. Joffe -- Science and authority in Tibetan medicine: Genpokyap, 'The extraordinarily special features of the human body' (2008) / Jenny Bright -- 'Eat less meat to save the world': Monk Changlyu, The book of diagnosis and natural foods (2014) / Emily S. Wu -- Hybridities and innovation -- Taiwanese tantra: Guru Wuguang, Art of yogic nourishment and the esoteric path (1966) / Cody R. Bahir -- Making a modern image of Jivaka: 'First encounters with Jivaka Komorabhacca, the high guru of healers and the inspiration for sculpting his image' (1969) / Anthony Lovenheim Irwin -- Gross national happiness: Buddhist principles and Bhutanese national health policy / Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie -- Utilizing Buddhist resources in post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yuzu, 'Vihara priests and interfaith chaplains' (2014) / Levi McLaughlin -- Medicine wizards of Myanmar: four recent Facebook posts / Thomas Nathan Patton -- Medicine and mental health -- Naikan and psychiatric medicine: Takemoto Takahiro, Naikan and medicine (1979) / Clark Chilson -- A contemporary Shingon priest's meditation therapies: selections from the writings of Oshita Daien (2006-2016) / Nathan Jishin Michon -- Mindfulness in Westminster: the all party parliamentary group, mindful UK (2014) / Joanna Cook -- Medicalizing Sen meditation in Korea: an interview with venerable Misan Sanim / Lina Koleilat -- Misuses of mindfulness: Ron Purser and David Loy, 'Beyond McMindfulness' (2013) / David L. McMahan -- Rediscovering living Buddhism in modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha, The Mantrayana of Ruarh (1979) / Projit Bihari Mukharji -- Conversations with two (possibly) Buddhist folk healers in China / Thomas DuBois -- Interview with a contemporary Chinese-American healer / Kin Cheung -- 'We need to balance out the boisterous spirits and gods': Buddhism in the healing practice of a contemporary Korean Shaman / Minjung Noh and C. Pierce Salguero -- Among archangels, aliens, and ascended masters: Quanyin Bodhisattva joins the new age pantheon / C. Pierce Salguero -- Buddhism and resistance in northern Thai traditional medicine: an interview with an unlicensed Thai folk healer / Assunta Hunter -- Burmese alchemy in practice: a conversation with master U Shein / Céline Coderey -- Mental illness in the Sowa Rigpa clinic: a conversation with Dr Teinlay P. Trogawa / Susannah Deane -- Biographical interview with the tantric meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan, with a translation of his 'Edible letters' / Mona Schrempf -- Japanese Buddhist women's 'way of healing' / Paula Arai -- Conversations about Buddhism and healthcare in multiethnic Philadelphia / C. Pierce Salguero.
Abstract:
"The links between Buddhism and health have lately received much attention in English-language academic, scientific, and popular media alike thanks to the increasing visibility of Tibetan meditation techniques in particular, but all of these discussions have thus far failed to contextualize these developments within a larger global framework. A companion to 'Buddhism and medicine: an anthology of premodern sources', this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine. More than 40 preeminent scholars and translators in the fields of religious studies and history of medicine focus on texts, global in scope, from the modern and contemporary periods (roughly 1600 to the present). This volume will follow the same format as the first anthology. A 500-1000-word introduction to each translation gives an overview of its historical and cultural context as well as its unique features and provides a list of sources for further reading. The editor's introduction provides a contextual overview as well as a brief summary of the state of the field, and a helpful glossary of key terms is provided for nonspecialists. The book is organized thematically, with a geographical appendix to facilitate navigating the contents. Special attention is given to patently modern themes such as colonialism, science, globalization, and ruptures with tradition. The broad scope of selections concerns Buddhism and healing in modern Asia and throughout the world, including the contemporary US, Europe, and Latin America"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
