Name: Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (en Inglés)
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Author: Janet Gyatso
ISBN: 9780231164962

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Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Columbia University Press

Autor

Janet Gyatso

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

544

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780231164962

Categorías

China
Historia de asia

Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (en Inglés)

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Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It further studies the adaptation of Buddhist concepts and values to medical concerns and suggests important dimensions of Buddhism's role in the development of Asian and global civilization.Through its unique focus and sophisticated reading of source materials, Being Human adds a crucial chapter in the larger historiography of science and religion. The book opens with the bold achievements in Tibetan medical illustration, commentary, and institution building during the period of the Fifth Dalai Lama and his regent, Desi Sangye Gyatso, then looks back to the work of earlier thinkers, tracing a strategically astute dialectic between scriptural and empirical authority on questions of history and the nature of human anatomy. It follows key differences between medicine and Buddhism in attitudes toward gender and sex and the moral character of the physician, who had to serve both the patient's and the practitioner's well-being. Being Human in a Buddhist World ultimately finds that Tibetan medical scholars absorbed ethical and epistemological categories from Buddhism yet shied away from ideal systems and absolutes, instead embracing the imperfectability of the human condition.