Buddhism and Medicine An Anthology of Premodern Sources
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 premod...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2017
New York, NY : [2017] |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Doctrinal Considerations
- 1. Illness, Cure, and Care Selections from the Pali Canon
- 2. The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhist Discourse
- 3. Curing/Curating Illness: Selections from the Chapter on the "Sufferings of Illness" from A Grove of Pearls from the Garden of Dharma
- 4 . Understanding the Dosa Summary of the Art of Medicine from the Sutra of Golden Light
- 5. Fetal Suffering in the Descent Into the Womb Sutra
- 6. Health and Sickness of Body and Mind: Selections from the Yogācāra-bhūmi
- 7. Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature ofillness and Its Manifestations
- 9. Liberating the Whole World: Sudhana's Meeting with Samantanetra from the Sūtra of the Entry Into the Realm of Reality
- HEALING AND MONASTIC DISCIPLINE
- 10. Medical Practice as Wrong Livelihood: Selections from the Pāli Discourses, Vinaya, and Commentaries
- 11. Nuns, Laywomen, and Healing: CONTENTS lX Three Rules from a Sanskrit Nuns' Disciplinary Code
- 12. Stories of Healing from the Section on Medicines in the Pali Vinaya
- Rules on Medicines from the Five-Part Vinaya of the Mahisasaka School
- 14. Food and Medicine in the Chinese Vinayas: Daoxuan's Emended Commentary on Monastic Practices from the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya
- 15. Toilet Care in Buddhist Monasteries: Health, Decency, and Ritual
- 16. Health Care in Indian Monasteries: Selections from Yijing's Record of the Inner Law Sent Home from the Southern Seas
- BUDDHIST HEALERS
- 17. Two Sutras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon
- 18. The Buddha Heals: Past and Present Lives
- 19. The Buddha's Past Life as a Snakebite Doctor: The Visa-vantajātaka
- 20. The Training and Treatments of an Indian Doctor in a Buddhist Text: A Sanskrit Biography of Jivaka
- 21. A Selection of Buddhist Healing Narratives from East Asia C. Pierce Salguero
- 22. The Buddha and the Bath Water: How the Bodhisattva Gyoki Founded Koya Temple
- 23. Esoteric Ritual Remedies: Kukai's Cures for Emperor Konin
- 24. "The Grief of Kings Is the Suffering of Their Subjects": A Cambodian King's Twelfth-Century Network of Hospitals
- HEALING RITES
- 25. Help for the Sick, the Dying, and the Misbegotten: A Sanskrit Version of the Sutra of Bhaisajyaguru
- 26. The Sutra on the Dharani of the Vast, Complete, and Unobstructed Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokite§vara with a Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes
- 27. Tantric Medicine in a Buddhist Proto-Tantra
- 28. Healing Dharanis A Collection of Medieval Spells from the Taisho Tripitaka
- 29. Seals of the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Talismanic Seal Manual from Dunhuang
- 30. "The Ritual Altar of Kundali Vajra for Treating Illnesses" from the Collected Dharani Sutras
- 31. Curing with Karma and Confession: Two Short Liturgies from Dunhuang
- 32. Childbirth in Early Medieval Japan: Ritual Economies and Medical Emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort's Labor
- 33. The Ox-Bezoar Empowerment for Fertility and Safe Childbirth: Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections
- 34. The Verses on the Victor's Armor: A Pali Text Used for Protection and Healing in Thailand
- 35. Selections from a Mongolian Manual of Buddhist Medicine
- MEDITATION AS CURE AND ILLNESS
- 36. Healing Sicknesses Caused by Meditation: "The Enveloping Butter Contemplation" from the Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness
- 37. Healing with Meditation: "Treating Illness" from Zhiyi's Shorter Treatise on Samatha and Vipasyana
- 38. Getting Sick Over Nothing: Hyesim and Hakuin on the Maladies of Meditation
- 39. Buddhist Method as Medicine: The Chan Materia Medica and Its Ming Dynasty Elaboration
- 40. Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life: Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity
- 41. Rangjung Dorje's Key to the Essential Pointsof Wind and Mind
- 42. Treating Disorders of the Subtle Winds in Tibetan Buddhism
- 43. How to Deal with Wind Illnesses: Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia
- HYBRIDITY IN BUDDHIST HEALING
- 44. Correlative Cosmology, Moral Rectitude, and Buddhist Notions of Health: Selections from the Sutra of Trapusa and Bhallika
- 45. Apotropaic Substances as Medicine in Buddhist Healing Methods: Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Five Sciences
- 46. Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans: Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes
- 47. ''The Mysterious Names on the Hands and Fingers": Healing Hand Mnemonics in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
- 48. Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma's Treasure of the Palm
- 49. Buddhist Health, Diet, and Sex Advice from Ancient Korea
- 50. Vessel Examination in the Medicine of the Moon King
- 51. Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease
- BUDDHISM AND THE MEDICAL TRADITIONS
- 52. "Indian Massage" from Sun Simiao's Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold
- 53. Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics: "The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician" from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold
- 54. Using the Golden Needle: Nagaljuna Bodhisattva's Ophthalmological Treatise and Other Sources in the Essentials of Medical Treatment
- 55. Buddhism in Choson Dynasty Medical Compilations
- 56. Determining Karmic Illness: Kajiwara Shozen's Treatment of Rai/Leprosy in Book of the Simple Physician
- 57. Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician TueTinh
- 58. The Dong Nhan Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy's Medical Encyclopedia
- 59. An Abhidhamma Perspective: Causes of Illness in a Burmese Buddhist Medical System
- 60.Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises
- 61. The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge
- 62. Did the Buddha Really Author the Classic Tibetan Medical Text? A Critical Examination from The Lamp to Dispel Darkness
- Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents
- Glossary
- References
- List of Contributors
- Index