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Medicine, health, and healing have been central to Buddhism since
its origins. Long before the global popularity of mindfulness and
meditation, Buddhism provided cultures around the world with
conceptual tools to understand illness as well as a range of
therapies and interventions for care of the sick. Today, Buddhist
traditions, healers, and institutions continue to exert a tangible
influence on medical care in societies both inside and outside
Asia, including in the areas of mental health, biomedicine, and
even in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the global
history of the relationship between Buddhism and medicine remains
largely untold. This book is a wide-ranging and accessible account
of the interplay between Buddhism and medicine over the past two
and a half millennia. C. Pierce Salguero traces the intertwining
threads linking ideas, practices, and texts from many different
times and places. He shows that Buddhism has played a crucial role
in cross-cultural medical exchange globally and that Buddhist
knowledge formed the nucleus for many types of traditional
practices that still thrive today throughout Asia. Although
Buddhist medicine has always been embedded in local contexts and
differs markedly across cultures, Salguero identifies key patterns
that have persisted throughout this long history. This book will be
informative and invaluable for scholars, students, and
practitioners of both Buddhism and complementary and alternative
medicine.
Medicine, health, and healing have been central to Buddhism since
its origins. Long before the global popularity of mindfulness and
meditation, Buddhism provided cultures around the world with
conceptual tools to understand illness as well as a range of
therapies and interventions for care of the sick. Today, Buddhist
traditions, healers, and institutions continue to exert a tangible
influence on medical care in societies both inside and outside
Asia, including in the areas of mental health, biomedicine, and
even in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the global
history of the relationship between Buddhism and medicine remains
largely untold. This book is a wide-ranging and accessible account
of the interplay between Buddhism and medicine over the past two
and a half millennia. C. Pierce Salguero traces the intertwining
threads linking ideas, practices, and texts from many different
times and places. He shows that Buddhism has played a crucial role
in cross-cultural medical exchange globally and that Buddhist
knowledge formed the nucleus for many types of traditional
practices that still thrive today throughout Asia. Although
Buddhist medicine has always been embedded in local contexts and
differs markedly across cultures, Salguero identifies key patterns
that have persisted throughout this long history. This book will be
informative and invaluable for scholars, students, and
practitioners of both Buddhism and complementary and alternative
medicine.
A companion volume to the Encyclopedia of Thai Massage, this
interactive teaching tool provides an overview of the basic course
for classic Thai massage routines. Instructors who have had to
create their own study guides will welcome this time-saving
accessory, and students will appreciate the thoughtful design that
allows room for taking notes, as well as links to images and pages
in the original text. Updated with new content and a revamped
layout, this handy reference also includes alternate steps from
advanced courses as well as a section on Sen lines.
From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium
BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and
practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the
religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing
deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became
centers of medical learning, and healer-monks gained renown for
their mastery of ritual and medicinal therapeutics. In China,
imported Buddhist knowledge contended with a sophisticated,
state-supported system of medicine that was able to retain its
influence among the elite. Further afield in Japan, where Chinese
Buddhism and Chinese medicine were introduced simultaneously as
part of the country's adoption of civilization from the "Middle
Kingdom," the two were reconciled by individuals who deemed them
compatible. In East Asia, Buddhist healing would remain a site of
intercultural tension and negotiation. While participating in
transregional networks of circulation and exchange, Buddhist
clerics practiced locally specific blends of Indian and indigenous
therapies and occupied locally defined social positions as
religious and medical specialists. In this diverse and compelling
collection, an international group of scholars analyzes the
historical connections between Buddhism and healing in medieval
China and Japan. They focus on the transnationally conveyed aspects
of Buddhist healing traditions as they moved across geographic,
cultural, and linguistic boundaries. Simultaneously, their work
also investigates the local instantiations of these ideas and
practices as they were reinvented, altered, and re-embedded in
specific social and institutional contexts. Investigating the
interplay between the macro and micro, the global and the local,
this book demonstrates the richness of Buddhist healing as a way to
explore the history of cross-cultural exchange.
Over the centuries, Buddhist ideas have influenced medical thought
and practice in complex and varied ways in diverse regions and
cultures. 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. Covering the early modern period to the present, this
anthology focuses on the many ways Buddhism and medicine were
shaped by the forces of colonialism, science, and globalization, as
well as ruptures and reconciliations between tradition and
modernity. Editor C. Pierce Salguero and an international
collection of scholars highlight diversity and innovation in the
encounters between Buddhist and medical thought. The chapters
contain a wide range of sources presenting different perspectives
rooted in distinct times and places, including translations of
published and unpublished documents and transcripts of ethnographic
interviews as well as accounts by missionaries and colonial
authorities and materials from the contemporary United States and
United Kingdom. Together, these varied sources illustrate the many
intersections of Buddhism and medicine in the past and how this
nexus continues to be crucial in today's global context.
From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with
medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing
the generative relationship and mutual influence between these
fields across premodern Asia. The anthology combines dozens of
English-language translations of premodern Buddhist texts with
contextualizing introductions by leading international scholars in
Buddhist studies, the history of medicine, and a range of other
fields. These sources explore in detail medical topics ranging from
the development of fetal anatomy in the womb to nursing, hospice,
dietary regimen, magical powers, visualization, and other healing
knowledge. Works translated here include meditation guides, popular
narratives, ritual manuals, spells texts, monastic disciplinary
codes, recipe inscriptions, philosophical treatises, poetry, works
by physicians, and other genres. All together, these selections and
their introductions provide a comprehensive overview of Buddhist
healing throughout Asia. They also demonstrate the central place of
healing in Buddhist practice and in the daily life of the premodern
world.
The transmission of Buddhism from India to China was one of the
most significant cross-cultural exchanges in the premodern world.
This cultural encounter involved more than the spread of religious
and philosophical knowledge. It influenced many spheres of Chinese
life, including the often overlooked field of medicine. Analyzing a
wide variety of Chinese Buddhist texts, C. Pierce Salguero examines
the reception of Indian medical ideas in medieval China. These
texts include translations from Indian languages as well as Chinese
compositions completed in the first millennium C.E. Translating
Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China illuminates and analyzes the
ways Chinese Buddhist writers understood and adapted Indian medical
knowledge and healing practices and explained them to local
audiences. The book moves beyond considerations of accuracy in
translation by exploring the resonances and social logics of
intercultural communication in their historical context. Presenting
the Chinese reception of Indian medicine as a process of
negotiation and adaptation, this innovative and interdisciplinary
work provides a dynamic exploration of the medical world of
medieval Chinese society. At the center of Salguero's work is an
appreciation of the creativity of individual writers as they made
sense of disease, health, and the body in the context of regional
and transnational traditions. By integrating religious studies,
translation studies, and literature with the history of medicine,
Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China reconstructs the
crucial role of translated Buddhist knowledge in the vibrant
medical world of medieval China.
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