Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789004401495
Subjects: Medicine, china, tibet autonomous region
Description: Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine' is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People's Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine.