Bodies in balance : the art of Tibetan medicine / edited by Theresia Hofer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hofer, Theresia, editor.

Rubin Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Tibetan--Exhibitions.

Medicine, Tibetan.

Medicine in art--Exhibitions.

Medicine in art.

Buddhist painting--Tibet Region--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

Buddhist painting.

Medicine, Tibetan Traditional--history.

Medicine in the Arts.

Buddhism.

Themes, motives.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Buddhist painting--Themes, motives.

Tibet Region.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine, Tibetan Traditional--history.

Medicine in the Arts.

Buddhism.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Rubin Museum of Art ; Seattle : in association with University of Washington Press, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction : Tibetan medicine, Buddhism, and the visual arts / Theresia Hofer

Part I. Theoretical foundations and practices of Tibetan medicine : The art of Tibetan medical practice / Barbara Gerke

Body and mind in Tibetan medicine and Tantric Buddhism / Geoffrey Samuel

Foundations of pharmacology and the compounding of Tibetan medicines / Theresia Hofer

External therapies in Tibetan medicine: The Four Tantras, contemporary practice and a preliminary history of surgery / Pasang Yontan Arya

Medicine, astrology, and divination / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Vignette 1. A day at the Astrology Department of the Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala, India / Inger K. Vasstveit

Tibetan medicine in the world: local scenes, global transformations / Sienna R. Craig

Part II. Medicine, Buddhism and historical developments : The Buddhas of medicine / Gyurme Dorje

The origins of the Four Tantras and an account of its author, Yuthog Yonten Gonpo / Yang Ga

The making of medical history, twelfth to seventeenth century / Frances Garrett

Buddhist practices and ideals in Desi Sangye Gyatso's medical paintings / Janet Gyatso

Vignette 2. The tree murals of Labrang Monastery's Medical College, Eastern Tibet / Katharina Sabernig

Illustrated Materia medica prints, manuscripts, and modern books / Theresia Hofer

The journeys of Tibetan medicine / Martin Saxer

Vignette 3. Pillars of Tibetan medicine: the Chagpori and Mentsikhang Institutes in Lhasa / Theresia Hofer, Knud Larsen

Appendices : Extracts from the Discourse on the particularly extensive former aspirations of the seven Tath�agatas ; Ati�sa's means for attainment entitled Rite which purifies all the obscurations of past actions ; Layout of the mandala of the Discourse of the Medicine Buddhas in eight hundred lines according to the Compendium of all the Tantras ; A summary of the second chapter of the Heart essence of Yuthogpa: the nectar stream of empowerment ritual.

Notes:

Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 15, 2014-September 8, 2014, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Gerke, Barbara, 1966- Art of Tibetan medical practice.

ISBN:

9780295993591

0295993596

OCLC:

857664259

Publisher Number:

99972579744