Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
ISBN: 9780231538329
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Buddhism -- Tibet Region -- History; Medicine Tibetan -- History; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism;

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Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University, where she serves on the faculty of the Divinity School, in the Study of Religion, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Her writing has centered on Tibetan Buddhism and its cultural and intellectual history from the perspective of large issues in the humanities about human experience and its literary presentation. She is the author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary , as well as several edited volumes.
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