Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Buddhism and Medicine

An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources

Edited by: C. Pierce Salguero

https://doi.org/10.7312/salg18936

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About this book

A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine covering the early modern period to the present.

Author / Editor information

C. Pierce Salguero is associate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington College. He is the editor of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (Columbia, 2017) and the author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (2014) and Traditional Thai Medicine (2016).

Reviews

Richard K. Payne, author of Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of Mantra:
Health and illness have always been concerns of practitioners. These translations of exemplary medical texts from the recent past demonstrate the enduring medical tradition within Buddhism. Not merely a religious tradition, or a system of doctrinal claims, or the texts that contain those claims and their philosophic rationales, Buddhism is effectively a culture in its own right.

Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Chicago:
In this elegant sourcebook, C. Pierce Salguero and his collaborators demonstrate, with unprecedented scope, how very diverse are the world's Buddhisms and the world's medicines. Neither romanticizing nor dismissing the contributions of Asian religion to the history of healing, this project teaches us much about how humans have dealt with suffering, today and in the past.

Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand:
This excellent volume should be an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of Buddhism and science, medicine, magic, and healing. By drawing on a wide variety of both textual and ethnographic sources from colonial critiques to modern Facebook posts from across the Buddhist world, the editor and his contributors have provided a rare view into the study of Buddhism and medicine that goes far beyond the contemporary study of mindfulness and well-being.

Robert H. Sharf, D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley:
Buddhism and Medicine is an invaluable sourcebook for the complex interplay between religion and medicine in Asia. It breaks ground on an astonishing range of topics and materials, and should be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction C. Pierce Salguero Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Early Modernity
1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians’ Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides Katja Triplett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin’s Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century) Katja Triplett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century: China Three Prefaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585–1664) Volker Scheid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
4. An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian Treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsültim’s “The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven’s White Flower” (1785) Batsaikhan Norov, Vesna A. Wallace and Batchimeg Usukhbayar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan’s “On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord” (1869) Justin B. Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851) Alexander McKinley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
7. “Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition”: Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Ruptures and Reconciliations
8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century) Joshua Capitanio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu’s “Buddhism and Science” (1923) and Ding Fubao’s Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920) Gregory Adam Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu’s Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952) William A. McGrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist’s Paintings of the Heart Sūtra Paula K. R. Arai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
12. Mantras for Modernity: Nida Chenagtsang’s “Mantra Healing Is an Indispensable Branch of Tibetan Traditional Medicine” (2003) and “A Rough Explanation of How Mantras Work” (2015) Ben P. Joffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
13. Science and Authority in Tibetan Medicine: Gönpokyap’s “Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body” (2008) Jenny Bright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
14. “We Will Live Long Lives and Attain Great Health”: Monk Changlyu’s The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014) Emily S. Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Hybridities and Innovations
15. Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang’s Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966) Cody R. Bahir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
16. Making a Modern Image of Jīvaka: “First Encounters with Jīvaka Komārabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image” (1969) Anthony Lovenheim Irwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
17. Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy Charles Jamyang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
18. Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō’s “Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains” (2014) Levi McLaughlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
19. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts Thomas Nathan Patton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Meditation and Mental Health
20. Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro’s Naikan and Medicine (1979) Clark Chilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
21. A Contemporary Shingon Priest’s Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Ōshita Daien (2006–2016) Nathan Jishin Michon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
22. Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group, Mindful UK (2015) Joanna Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
23. Medicalizing Sŏn Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sŭnim Lina Koleilat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
24. Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013) 24. Misuses of Mindfulness Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013) David L. McMahan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Crossing Boundaries
25. Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha’s The Mantrayāna of Rārh (1979) Projit Bihari Mukharji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
26. Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China Thomas David Dubois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
27. Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer Kin Cheung and C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
28. “We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods”: Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman Minjung Noh and C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters:Avalokiteśvara Joins the New Age Pantheon C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Buddhist Healing in Practice
30. Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional: Medicine An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer Assunta Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
31. Burmese Alchemy in Practice: Master U Shein’s Healing Practice Céline Coderey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
32. Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Teinlay P. Trogawa Susannah Deane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
33. Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan: With a Translation of His “Edible Letters” Mona Schrempf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
34. Japanese Buddhist Women’s “Way of Healing” Paula K. R. Arai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
35. Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Geographical Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 20 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: December 16, 2019
ISBN: 9780231548304