Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no
discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human
in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of
early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional
Tibetan medicine. It further studies the adaptation of Buddhist
concepts and values to medical concerns and suggests important
dimensions of Buddhism's role in the development of Asian and
global civilization. Through its unique focus and sophisticated
reading of source materials, Being Human adds a crucial chapter in
the larger historiography of science and religion. The book opens
with the bold achievements in Tibetan medical illustration,
commentary, and institution building during the period of the Fifth
Dalai Lama and his regent, Desi Sangye Gyatso, then looks back to
the work of earlier thinkers, tracing a strategically astute
dialectic between scriptural and empirical authority on questions
of history and the nature of human anatomy. It follows key
differences between medicine and Buddhism in attitudes toward
gender and sex and the moral character of the physician, who had to
serve both the patient's and the practitioner's well-being. Being
Human in a Buddhist World ultimately finds that Tibetan medical
scholars absorbed ethical and epistemological categories from
Buddhism yet shied away from ideal systems and absolutes, instead
embracing the imperfectability of the human condition.
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