Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review…essential reading for scholars in Buddhist Studies and historians of medicine. * International Journal of Asian Studies *
This is an excellent overview of the connections between Buddhism and medicine. It will be very useful for scholars and students in Buddhist studies and history of medicine alike, and is likely to become the standard book for teaching this subject. Salguero has dealt well with the challenge of providing a grand overview that is accessible and useful across several disciplines. -- Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, author of
ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk RoadsA Global History of Buddhism and Medicine provides an overarching narrative for the burgeoning field of Buddhist medical studies. Salguero successfully synthesizes several millennia of intellectual developments that took place across diverse traditions and cultures into a single coherent narrative. -- William McGrath, Manhattan College
Synthetizes a quantity of precious information in light prose within a few pages. * Religion *
A key resource and significant teaching device in Buddhist studies for years to come. * Asian Medicine *
Of immense use to those seeking an introduction to the field of Buddhism and medicine and would prove invaluable to scholars seeking to teach the subject or compile a university course. Finally, those with a broader interest in religion and medicine have much to gain from this volume. * Religious Studies Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Practices and Doctrinal Perspectives1. Nikāya Buddhism
2. Mahāyāna Buddhism
3. Tantric Buddhism
4. Common Questions
Part II: Historical Currents and Transformations5. Circulations
6. Translations
7. Localizations
8. Modernizations
9. Contemporary Buddhist Medicine
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
