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Being Human in a Buddhist World : An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet

Name: Being Human in a Buddhist World : An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
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By Janet Gyatso

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This volume explores medical thought in Tibet and reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It looks at how Buddhist concepts and values were adapted to medical concerns and highlights important ways in which Buddhism played a role in the development of Asian and global civilisation. It ultimately finds that Tibetan medical scholars absorbed ethical and epistemological categories from Buddhism yet shied away fr...Show more

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9781322571478

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New York : : Columbia University Press,

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Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Being Human in a Buddhist World : An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet

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Paperback

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