Article ID: CBB000850181

Tibetan Medical Schools of the Aga Area (Chita Region) (2008)

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Buryat medicine, which derived from Tibeto-Mongolian medical systems and traditions, has thrived in the Transbaikal region from the eighteenth century. There are, however, two main streams in Buryat healing traditions: one deriving from Buryat folk medicine and the other, the main focus of this article, scholarly Tibetan medicine, as transmitted through Mongolian medical culture. As it was adopted in Buryatia, Tibeto-Mongolian medicine went through a process of adaptation to the local environment, most conspicuously in the field of pharmacology. It is here that we find the main original Buryat contributions to the wider development of TibetoMongolian medical culture.

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Description On the local adaptations of Tibeto-Mongolian medicine to Buryat culture especially in pharmacology.


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Authors & Contributors
Dalen, Benno van
Samuel, Geoffrey
Connor, Linda H.
Guan, Xiao-wu
Di, Li
Zieme, Peter
Journals
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Guangxi Minzu Xueyuan Xuebao
Gesnerus
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Publishers
Bergin & Garvey
Indiana University
Columbia University
Harvard University
Routledge
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Medicine, traditional
Medicine
Pharmacology
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
People
Kozlov, Pyotr Kuzmich
Time Periods
Medieval
17th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
8th century
Places
Tibet
China
Mongolia
Central Asia
India
Indonesia
Institutions
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
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