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

By Janet Gyatso

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780231538329
DOI
10.7312/gyat16496
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9070748 bytes)
Pages
544\538
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 00:01:47

Description

Critically exploring medical thought in a Buddhist cultural milieu, Being Human 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. Gyatso 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. A definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American politics, the American economy, and America’s approach to the world in a pivotal decade.

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