Religion Medicine And The Human Embryo In Tibet
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Author |
: Frances Garrett |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2008-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134068913 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134068913 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet by : Frances Garrett
This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion. Filling a significant gap in the literature this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan medical history in the English language. It reveals the prevalence of descriptions of the development of the human body – from conception to birth – found in all forms of Tibetan religious literature, as well as in medical texts and in art. By analysing stories of embryology, Frances Garrett explores questions of cultural transmission and adaptation: How did Tibetan writers adapt ideas inherited from India and China for their own purposes? What original views did they develop on the body, on gender, on creation, and on life itself? The transformations of embryological narratives over several centuries illuminate key turning points in Tibetan medical history, and its relationship with religious doctrine and practice. Embryology was a site for both religious and medical theorists to contemplate profound questions of being and becoming, where topics such as pharmacology and nosology were left to shape secular medicine. The author argues that, in terms of religion, stories of human development comment on embodiment, gender, socio-political hierarchy, religious ontology, and spiritual progress. Through the lens of embryology, this book examines how these concerns shift as Tibetan history moves through the formative 'renaissance' period of the twelfth through to the seventeenth centuries.
Author |
: Frances Garrett |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2008-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134068920 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134068921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet by : Frances Garrett
This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature. Filling a significant gap, this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan medical history in the English language. It examines embryological narratives in relation to turning points in Tibetan medical history, and its relationship with religious doctrine and practice.
Author |
: Frances Garrett |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2015-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1138862258 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781138862258 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet by : Frances Garrett
This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion. Filling a significant gap in the literature this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan medical history in the English language. It reveals the prevalence of descriptions of the development of the human body - from conception to birth - found in all forms of Tibetan religious literature, as well as in medical texts and in art. By analysing stories of embryology, Frances Garrett explores questions of cultural transmission and adaptation: How did Tibetan writers adapt ideas inherited from India and China for their own purposes? What original views did they develop on the body, on gender, on creation, and on life itself? The transformations of embryological narratives over several centuries illuminate key turning points in Tibetan medical history, and its relationship with religious doctrine and practice. Embryology was a site for both religious and medical theorists to contemplate profound questions of being and becoming, where topics such as pharmacology and nosology were left to shape secular medicine. The author argues that, in terms of religion, stories of human development comment on embodiment, gender, socio-political hierarchy, religious ontology, and spiritual progress. Through the lens of embryology, this book examines how these concerns shift as Tibetan history moves through the formative 'renaissance' period of the twelfth through to the seventeenth centuries.
Author |
: Vanessa R Sasson |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2009-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195380040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195380045 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining the Fetus by : Vanessa R Sasson
In contemporary Western culture, the word "fetus" introduces either a political subject or a literal, medicalized entity. Neither of these frameworks does justice to the vast array of religious literature and oral traditions from cultures around the world in which the fetus emerges as a powerful symbol or metaphor. This volume presents essays that explore the depiction of the fetus in the world's major religious traditions, finding some striking commonalities as well as intriguing differences. Among the themes that emerge is the tendency to conceive of the fetus as somehow independent of the mother's body — as in the case of the Buddha, who is described as inhabiting a palace while gestating in the womb. On the other hand, the fetus can also symbolically represent profound human needs and emotions, such as the universal experience of vulnerability. The authors note how the advent of the fetal sonogram has transformed how people everywhere imagine the unborn today, giving rise to a narrow range of decidedly literal questions about personhood, gender, and disability.
Author |
: C. Pierce Salguero |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2022-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231546072 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231546076 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine by : C. Pierce Salguero
Medicine, health, and healing have been central to Buddhism since its origins. Long before the global popularity of mindfulness and meditation, Buddhism provided cultures around the world with conceptual tools to understand illness as well as a range of therapies and interventions for care of the sick. Today, Buddhist traditions, healers, and institutions continue to exert a tangible influence on medical care in societies both inside and outside Asia, including in the areas of mental health, biomedicine, and even in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the global history of the relationship between Buddhism and medicine remains largely untold. This book is a wide-ranging and accessible account of the interplay between Buddhism and medicine over the past two and a half millennia. C. Pierce Salguero traces the intertwining threads linking ideas, practices, and texts from many different times and places. He shows that Buddhism has played a crucial role in cross-cultural medical exchange globally and that Buddhist knowledge formed the nucleus for many types of traditional practices that still thrive today throughout Asia. Although Buddhist medicine has always been embedded in local contexts and differs markedly across cultures, Salguero identifies key patterns that have persisted throughout this long history. This book will be informative and invaluable for scholars, students, and practitioners of both Buddhism and complementary and alternative medicine.
Author |
: Vincanne Adams |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2010-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845459741 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845459741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medicine Between Science and Religion by : Vincanne Adams
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.
Author |
: Geoffrey Samuel |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2013-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136766404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136766405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West by : Geoffrey Samuel
Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts. The book discusses how subtle-body practices assume a quasi-material level of human existence that is intermediate between conventional concepts of body and mind. Often, this level is conceived of in terms of an invisible structure of channels, associated with the human body, through which flows of quasi-material substance take place. Contributors look at how subtle-body concepts form the basic explanatory structure for a wide range of practices. These include forms of healing, modes of exercise and martial arts as well as religious practices aimed at the refinement and transformation of the human mindbody complex. By highlighting how subtle-body practices of many kinds have been introduced into Western societies in recent years, the book explores the possibilities for new models of understanding which these concepts open up. It is a useful contribution to studies on Asian Religion and Philosophy.
Author |
: Rahul Peter Das |
Publisher |
: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages |
: 758 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8120819985 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788120819986 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origin of the Life of a Human Being by : Rahul Peter Das
This study attempts to determine how the ancient Indian medicinal and sexological texts would answer a non medical question but also social and religious relevance namelyl: what happens in a woman`s body at the time of conception? To this end, numerous relevant texts were exhausitively analysed, along with several secondary sources and other traditional medicinal systems.
Author |
: Barbara Gerke |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 387 |
Release |
: 2011-12-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004217034 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004217037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Long Lives and Untimely Deaths by : Barbara Gerke
How do Tibetans in India's Darjeeling Hills understand the life-span and various life-forces that influence longevity? This book analyses ethnographic and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans utilise temporal frameworks in medical, astrological, divinatory, and ritual contexts to locate and reckon life-forces influencing their life-spans.
Author |
: Michael Stanley-Baker |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 484 |
Release |
: 2023-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526160003 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526160005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Situating religion and medicine in Asia by : Michael Stanley-Baker
This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book’s central question is to what extent ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?