Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources
ISBN: 9780231544269
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Healing -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism;

This anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern Buddhist texts with contextualizing introductions by leading international scholars in Buddhist studies, history of medicine, and a range of other fields

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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