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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. This anthology is a companion volume to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (Columbia, 2019).

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Author:   C. Pierce Salguero
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780231179942

ISBN 10:   0231179944
Pages:   728
Publication Date:   26 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Doctrinal Considerations 1. Illness, Cure, and Care: Selections from the Pali Canon, by Dhivan Thomas Jones 2. The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhist Discourse, by Analayo 3. Curing/Curating Illness: Selections from the Chapter on the Sufferings of Illness from A Grove of Pearls from the Garden of Dharma, by Alexander O. Hsu 4. Understanding the Dosa: A Summary of the Art of Medicine from the Sutra of Golden Light, by C. Pierce Salguero 5. Fetal Suffering in the Descent Into the Womb Sutra, by Amy Paris Langenberg 6. Health and Sickness of Body and Mind: Selections from the Yogacara-bhumi, by Dan Lusthaus 7. Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature of Illness and Its Manifestations, by Edward Drott 8. Karma in the Bathhouse: The Sutra on Bathing the Sangha in the Bathhouse, by C. Pierce Salguero 9. Liberating the Whole World: Sudhana's Meeting with Samantanetra from the Sutra of the Entry Into the Realm of Reality, by William J. Giddings Healing and Monastic Discipline 10. Medical Practice as Wrong Livelihood: Selections from the Pali Discourses, Vinaya, and Commentaries, by David Fiordalis 11. Nuns, Laywomen, and Healing: Three Rules from a Sanskrit Nuns Disciplinary Code, by Amy Paris Langenberg 12. Stories of Healing from the Section on Medicines in the Pali Vinaya, by David Fiordalis 13. Rules on Medicines from the Five-Part Vinaya of the Mahisasaka School, by C. Pierce Salguero 14. Food and Medicine in the Chinese Vinayas: Daoxuan's Emended Commentary on Monastic Practices from the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, by J. E. E. Pettit 15. Toilet Care in Buddhist Monasteries: Health, Decency, and Ritual, by Ann Heirman and Mathieu Torck 16. Health Care in Indian Monasteries: Selections from Yijing's Record of the Inner Law Sent Home from the Southern Seas, by Christoph Kleine Buddhist Healers 17. Two Sutras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon, by Marcus Bingenheimer 18. The Buddha Heals: Past and Present Lives, by Phyllis Granoff 19. The Buddha's Past Life as a Snakebite Doctor: The Visa-vanta Jataka, by Michael Slouber 20. The Training and Treatments of an Indian Doctor in a Buddhist Text: A Sanskrit Biography of Jivaka, by Gregory Schopen 21. A Selection of Buddhist Healing Narratives from East Asia, by C. Pierce Salguero 22. The Buddha and the Bath Water: How the Bodhisattva Gyoki Founded Koya Temple, by D. Max Moerman 23. Esoteric Ritual Remedies: Kukai's Cures for Emperor Konin, by Pamela Winfield 24. The Grief of Kings Is the Suffering of Their Subjects : A Cambodian King's Twelfth-Century Network of Hospitals, by Peter D. Sharrock and Claude Jacques Healing Rites 25. Help for the Sick, Dying and Misbegotten: A Sanskrit Version of the Sutra of Bhaisajyaguru, by Gregory Schopen 26. The Sutra on the Dharani of the Vast, Complete, and Unobstructed Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara with a Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes, by William J. Giddings 27. Tantric Medicine in a Buddhist Proto-Tantra, by Michael Slouber 28. Healing Dharanis: A Collection of Medieval Spells from the Taisho Tripitaka, by C. Pierce Salguero 29. Seals of the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Talismanic Seal Manual from Dunhuang, by Paul Copp 30. The Ritual Altar of Kundali Vajra for Treating Illnesses from the Collected Dharani Sutras, by Josh Capitanio 31. Curing with Karma and Confession: Two Short Liturgies from Dunhuang, by Stephen F. Teiser 32. Childbirth in Early Medieval Japan: Ritual Economies and Medical Emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort's Labor, by Anna Andreeva 33. The Ox-Bezoar Empowerment for Fertility and Safe Childbirth: Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections, by Benedetta Lomi 34. The Verses on the Victor's Armor: A Pali Text Used for Protection and Healing in Thailand, by Justin Thomas McDaniel 35. Selections from a Mongolian Manual of Buddhist Medicine, by Vesna A. Wallace Meditation as Cure and Illness 36. Healing Sicknesses Caused by Meditation: The Enveloping Butter Contemplation from the Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness, by Eric Greene 37. Healing with Meditation: Treating Illness from Zhiyi's Shorter Treatise on Samatha and Vipasyana, by C. Pierce Salguero 38. Getting Sick Over Nothing: Hyesim and Hakuin on the Maladies of Meditation, by Juhn Ahn 39. Buddhist Method as Medicine: The Chan Materia Medica and its Ming Dynasty Elaboration, by Robban Toleno 40. Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life: Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity, by Matthew T. Kapstein 41. Rangjung Dorje's Key to the Essential Points of Wind and Mind, by Douglas Duckworth 42. Treating Disorders of the Subtle Winds in Tibetan Buddhism, by Todd P. Marek and Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie 43. How to Deal with Wind Illnesses: Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia, by Andrew Skilton and Phibul Choompolpaisal Hybridity in Buddhist Healing 44. Correlative Cosmology, Moral Rectitude, and Buddhist Notions of Health: Selections from the Sutra of Trapusa and Bhallika, by Ori Tavor 45. Apotropaic Substances as Medicine in Buddhist Healing Methods: Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Five Sciences, by Dominic Steavu 46. Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans: Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes, by Michael Stanley-Baker and Dolly Yang 47. The Mysterious Names on the Hands and Fingers : Healing Hand Mnemonics in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, by Marta Hanson 48. Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma's Treasure of the Palm, by Stephanie Homola 49. Buddhist Health, Diet, and Sex Advice in Ancient Korea, by Don Baker and Hyunsook Lee 50. Vessel Examination in the Medicine of the Moon King, by William A. McGrath 51. Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease, by Andrew Macomber Buddhism in the Medical Traditions 52. Indian Massage from Sun Simiao's Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, by Michael Stanley-Baker 53. Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics: The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, by Nathan Sivin 54. Using the Golden Needle: Nagarjuna Bodhisattva's Ophthalmological Treatise and Other Sources in the Essentials of Medical Treatment, by Katja Triplett 55. Buddhism in Choson Dynasty Medical Compilations, by Kang Yeonseok and Taehyung Lee 56. Determining Karmic Illness: Kajiwara Shozen's Treatment of Rai/Leprosy in His Book of the Simple Physician, by Andrew Goble 57. Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician Tue Tinh, by C. Michele Thompson 58. The Dong Nhan Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy's Medical Encyclopedia, by Leslie E. de Vries 59. An Abhidhamma Perspective: Causes of Illness in a Burmese Buddhist Medical System, by Pyi Phyo Kyaw 60. Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises, by Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger 61. The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge, by Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger 62. Did the Buddha Really Author the Classic Tibetan Medical Text? A Critical Examination from The Lamp to Dispel Darkness, by Janet Gyatso Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents Glossary References List of Contributors Index

Reviews

C. Pierce Salguero's Buddhism and Medicine is an amazingly rich and comprehensive collection of studies of texts and observed practices from all over the Asian lands where Buddhism's manifestations made extensive contributions to the cultures. This book is a remarkable labor of scholarship and dedication-I cannot recommend it highly enough for anyone interested in Buddhism, the history of medicine, and the mutually fruitful interaction of the Asian medicine traditions and Western biomedical tradition that is happening all around us today. -- Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University This is a most unusual project. It will be a unique and valuable resource, both for students of Buddhism and for students of the history of medicine. There has never been anything like it in any language. -- Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania A welcome addition to studies involving the healing traditions connected with Buddhism in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It will appeal to students of Buddhism, Asian medicine, and, importantly, the history of medicine. -- Kenneth Zysk, University of Copenhagen

This is a most unusual project. It will be a unique and valuable resource, both for students of Buddhism and for students of the history of medicine. There has never been anything like it in any language. -- Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania

This is a most unusual project. It will be a unique and valuable resource, both for students of Buddhism and for students of the history of medicine. There has never been anything like it in any language. -- Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania This is simply a wonderful volume. The topic is important, the list of contributors impressive. The work is thoughtfully organized, yet the editor wisely chose not to impose too much artificial order on the lush diversity of rich and fascinating sources. This book provides an authoritative, accessible introduction to the many ways Buddhism since its origin has addressed sickness and healing of many kinds. -- Rob Campany, Vanderbilt University

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C. Pierce Salguero is aassociate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University's Abington College. He is the author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (2014), Traditional Thai Medicine (2016), and numerous scholarly articles and popular works on Buddhism and traditional medicine in Asia.

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