Knowledge and context in Tibetan medicine /
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibeta...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Edice: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 43. |
| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2200293 |
Obsah:
- Intro; Contents; Introduction Navigating the Ocean of Tibetan Medical Literature; A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Bibliography; Figures; Contributors; Part 1 The Vicissitudes of Meaning in Context; Chapter 1 A New Sense of (Dark) Humor in Tibet: Brown Phlegm and Black Bile; Chapter 2 A Preliminary Study on the Biography of Yutok Yönten Gönpo the Elder: Reflections on the Origins of Tibetan Medicine; Chapter 3 "Secret Medicine" in the Writings of Sanggyé Gyatso: the Encoded Esoteric Material of Therapeutics; Chapter 4 Visceral Anatomy as Depicted in Tibetan Medicine
- Chapter 5 The Modern Biomedical Conception of Cancerand Its Many Potential Correlates in the Tibetan Medical TraditionPart 2 Medicine and Religion in Context; Chapter 6 The Nine-Fold Magical Cord Cycle: Investigating 'Phrul gyi the gu brgu skor, a Wartime Medical Manual; Chapter 7 Knowledge, Imagery, and the Treatment of Communicable Disease in the Vase of the Amṛta of Immortality: A Preliminary Analysis of a Nyingma Medical Corpus; Chapter 8 Tantric Divination and Empirical Diagnosis: a Genealogy of Channel Prasenā Rituals in the Tibetan Medical Tradition
- Chapter 9 Madness and the Spirits: Examining the Role of Spirits in Mental Illness in the Tibetan Communities of DarjeelingChapter 10 Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills; Index