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Medieval Chinese Medicine - The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts (Hardcover)
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Medieval Chinese Medicine - The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts (Hardcover)
Series: Needham Research Institute Series
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In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun
to be widely practiced in western countries, and the academic study
of the subject is now well established. However, there are still
few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese
medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period. The
collection presented here is an example of the kind of
international collaboration of research teams, centers and
individuals that is required to begin to study the source materials
adequately.
The primary sources for this research come from a collection of
medieval manuscripts discovered in 1900 in a walled-up room in the
Buddhist cave-shrines of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, west China.
Dunhuang was formerly an important Silk Road town, and formed the
base of one of the first garrisons to be established during the Han
period to secure the safe passage of soldiers, officials and
traders between east and west. While the majority of the
manuscripts stored in the cave are copies of Buddhist scriptural
texts, there are also thousands of non-Buddhist texts, both
religious and secular. The presence among these of some one hundred
medical texts suggests that the Dunhuang prefectural school was a
centre for copying and transmitting medical writings. In the
collection we find the earliest handwritten copies of well-known
classical medical treatises, together with hitherto unknown medical
works, including illustrations and charts, texts related to
religious and popular healing traditions and, excitingly, extensive
portions of texts previously known only through brief quotations in
later works.
This is the first book to discuss this fascinating material in a
western languagein the century since the Dunhuang library was
discovered, and it is likely to remain the only book of its kind in
English for a considerable time.
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