Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2015)
New Books in Early Modern History
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Challenging Traditional Knowledge with Dissection of Human Corpses
This chapter explores the story of a physician who publicly dissected human corpses and the implications it has on traditional knowledge. The speaker discusses the challenge of reconciling tantric body channels with physical observations and how the author attempts to navigate between empirical data and the usefulness of the tantric system.
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