Article ID: CBB199420307

Medicine in the Chinese Buddhist Canon (2017)

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The excerpts below were selected to introduce a number of disparate genres and types of discourses about healing, illness, and cure that are embedded within the Chinese Buddhist canon. They include an excerpt from a monastic disciplinary code concerning the storage of medicines, a scripture with a story of an encounter between a bodhisattva and a famous physician, a liturgy dedicated to a major healing deity, an author’s advice to doctors from a Buddhist perspective, and a devotional verse that plays on medical metaphors. Taken together, they indicate some of the diversity of perspectives and approaches of Buddhist materials and suggest the potential importance of often-overlooked Buddhist materials for the study of Asian medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Salguero, C. Pierce
Despeux, Catherine
Faure, Bernard
Furth, Charlotte
Garrett, Frances Mary
Goble, Andrew Edmund
Journals
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
History of Religions
Korean Journal of Medical History
Publishers
Columbia University
Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises
Columbia University Press
Johns Hopkins University
Oxford University Press
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Buddhism
Medicine
Medicine and religion
Medicine, Chinese traditional
East Asia, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
People
Shozen, Kajiwara
Zhu, Zhenheng
Chang, Yu
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Tang dynasty (China, 618-907)
13th century
16th century
17th century
Places
China
Tibet
Japan
Korea
Asia
Mongolia
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