Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World / Edited by C. Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung,and Susannah Deane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salguero, C. Pierce, editor.

Cheung, Kin, editor.

Deane, Susannah, editor.

Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie.

McKinley, Alexander.

King, Matthew W.

Langenberg, Amy Paris.

Helderman, Ira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist medicine.

Traditional medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2024.

Summary:

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Contents:

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - A Cure for Mindfulness: Buddhism, Anxiety, and the Problem of Work in Modern Japan

Chapter 2 - Healing Buddhist Knowledge from Palm Leaves to Print: Exorcising Yakṣas from Sinhala Literary Reproduction

Chapter 3 - If You Meet the Medical Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! Lobsang Gyatso and the Shadow of the Mind & Life Dialogues

Chapter 4 - “For This Kind of Thing, the Lama Is Better”: Religion, Medicine, and the Treatment of “Madness” among Tibetans in Amdo

Chapter 5 - Better (Buddhist) Sex in the USA: Mindfulness, Non-Harm, and Dr. Nida’s Yoga of Bliss

Chapter 6 - Mindful of the Media: Framing “Adverse Meditation Effects” in Popular Media in the United States

Chapter 7 - Buddhist Healing in the Community: A Chinese American Healer in New York City

Chapter 8 - Entangled Threads, Gordian Knots: Won Buddhism and the Globalization of Buddhist Medicine

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8248-9861-3

OCLC:

1463771539