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Buddhism and Medicine : An Anthology of Premodern Sources / C. Pierce Salguero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salguero, C. Pierce, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Healing--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Healing.
- Suffering--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Suffering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (726 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York 2017
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780231544269
- 023154426X
- OCLC:
- 1004876238
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