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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Buddhism, Medicine, and the State in Early Modern Tibet
This chapter explores the connection between Buddhism, medicine, and the state in early modern Tibet. It delves into the importance of medicine for the state, the tension between old and new knowledge, as well as the debates surrounding the authorship of a sacred scripture in Tibetan medicine.
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