Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources

C. Pierce Salguero

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

Buddhism and Medicine

An Anthology of Premodern Sources

C. Pierce Salguero

https://doi.org/10.7312/salg17994

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About this book

This anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern Buddhist texts with contextualizing introductions by leading international scholars in Buddhist studies, history of medicine, and a range of other fields

Author information

C. Pierce Salguero is aassociate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington College. He is the author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (2014), Traditional Thai Medicine (2016), and numerous scholarly articles and popular works on Buddhism and traditional medicine in Asia.

Reviews

Kenneth Zysk, University of Copenhagen:
A welcome addition to studies involving the healing traditions connected with Buddhism in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It will appeal to students of Buddhism, Asian medicine, and, importantly, the history of medicine.

Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania:
This is a most unusual project. It will be a unique and valuable resource, both for students of Buddhism and for students of the history of medicine. There has never been anything like it in any language.

Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University:
C. Pierce Salguero’s Buddhism and Medicine is an amazingly rich and comprehensive collection of studies of texts and observed practices from all over the Asian lands where Buddhism’s manifestations made extensive contributions to the cultures. This book is a remarkable labor of scholarship and dedication—I cannot recommend it highly enough for anyone interested in Buddhism, the history of medicine, and the mutually fruitful interaction of the Asian medicine traditions and Western biomedical tradition that is happening all around us today.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxi
Doctrinal Considerations
1. Illness, Cure, and Care Selections from the Pali Canon Dhivan Thomas Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhist Discourse Aniilayo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
3. Curing/Curating Illness: Selections from the Chapter on the "Sufferings of Illness" from A Grove of Pearls from the Garden of Dharma Alexander O. Hsu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
4 . Understanding the Dosa Summary of the Art of Medicine from the Sutra of Golden Light C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
5. Fetal Suffering in the Descent Into the Womb Sutra Amy Paris Langenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
6. Health and Sickness of Body and Mind: Selections from the Yogācāra-bhūmi Dan Lusthaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
7. Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature ofillness and Its Manifestations Edward R. Drott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
9. Liberating the Whole World: Sudhana's Meeting with Samantanetra from the Sūtra of the Entry Into the Realm of Reality William J. Giddings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
HEALING AND MONASTIC DISCIPLINE
10. Medical Practice as Wrong Livelihood: Selections from the Pāli Discourses, Vinaya, and Commentaries David Fiordalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
11. Nuns, Laywomen, and Healing: CONTENTS lX Three Rules from a Sanskrit Nuns' Disciplinary Code Amy Paris Langenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
12. Stories of Healing from the Section on Medicines in the Pali Vinaya David Fiordalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Rules on Medicines from the Five-Part Vinaya of the Mahisasaka School C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
14. Food and Medicine in the Chinese Vinayas: Daoxuan's Emended Commentary on Monastic Practices from the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya J. E. E. Pettit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
15. Toilet Care in Buddhist Monasteries: Health, Decency, and Ritual Ann Heirman and Mathieu Torck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
16. Health Care in Indian Monasteries: Selections from Yijing's Record of the Inner Law Sent Home from the Southern Seas Christoph Kleine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
BUDDHIST HEALERS
17. Two Sutras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon Marcus Bingenheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
18. The Buddha Heals: Past and Present Lives Phyllis Granoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
19. The Buddha's Past Life as a Snakebite Doctor: The Visa-vantajātaka Michael Slouber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
20. The Training and Treatments of an Indian Doctor in a Buddhist Text: A Sanskrit Biography of Jivaka Gregory Schopen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
21. A Selection of Buddhist Healing Narratives from East Asia C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
22. The Buddha and the Bath Water: How the Bodhisattva Gyoki Founded Koya Temple D. Max Moerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
23. Esoteric Ritual Remedies: Kukai's Cures for Emperor Konin Pamela D. Winfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
24. "The Grief of Kings Is the Suffering of Their Subjects": A Cambodian King's Twelfth-Century Network of Hospitals Peter D. Sharrock and Claude Jacques Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
HEALING RITES
25. Help for the Sick, the Dying, and the Misbegotten: A Sanskrit Version of the Sutra of Bhaisajyaguru Gregory Schopen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
26. The Sutra on the Dharani of the Vast, Complete, and Unobstructed Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokite§vara with a Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes William J. Giddings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
27. Tantric Medicine in a Buddhist Proto-Tantra Michael Slouber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
28. Healing Dharanis A Collection of Medieval Spells from the Taisho Tripitaka C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
29. Seals of the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Talismanic Seal Manual from Dunhuang Paul Copp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
30. "The Ritual Altar of Kundali Vajra for Treating Illnesses" from the Collected Dharani Sutras Joshua Capitanio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
31. Curing with Karma and Confession: Two Short Liturgies from Dunhuang Stephen F. Teiser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
32. Childbirth in Early Medieval Japan: Ritual Economies and Medical Emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort's Labor Anna Andreeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
33. The Ox-Bezoar Empowerment for Fertility and Safe Childbirth: Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections Benedetta Lomi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
34. The Verses on the Victor's Armor: A Pali Text Used for Protection and Healing in Thailand Justin Thomas McDaniel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
35. Selections from a Mongolian Manual of Buddhist Medicine Vesna A. Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
MEDITATION AS CURE AND ILLNESS
36. Healing Sicknesses Caused by Meditation: "The Enveloping Butter Contemplation" from the Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness Eric M. Greene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
37. Healing with Meditation: "Treating Illness" from Zhiyi's Shorter Treatise on Samatha and Vipasyana C. Pierce Salguero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382
38. Getting Sick Over Nothing: Hyesim and Hakuin on the Maladies of Meditation Juhn Ahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
39. Buddhist Method as Medicine: The Chan Materia Medica and Its Ming Dynasty Elaboration Robban Toleno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	398
40. Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life: Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity Matthew T. Kapstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
41. Rangjung Dorje's Key to the Essential Pointsof Wind and Mind Douglas Duckworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
42. Treating Disorders of the Subtle Winds in Tibetan Buddhism Todd P. Marek and Charles Jamyang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
43. How to Deal with Wind Illnesses: Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia Andrew Skilton and Phibul Choompolpaisal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
HYBRIDITY IN BUDDHIST HEALING
44. Correlative Cosmology, Moral Rectitude, and Buddhist Notions of Health: Selections from the Sutra of Trapusa and Bhallika Ori Tavor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
45. Apotropaic Substances as Medicine in Buddhist Healing Methods: Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Five Sciences Dominic Steavu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
46. Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans: Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes Michael Stanley-Baker and Dolly Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
47. ''The Mysterious Names on the Hands and Fingers": Healing Hand Mnemonics in Medieval Chinese Buddhism Marta E. Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
48. Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma's Treasure of the Palm Stephanie Homola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	486
49. Buddhist Health, Diet, and Sex Advice from Ancient Korea Don Baker and Hyunsook Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	494
50. Vessel Examination in the Medicine of the Moon King Williarm A. McGrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
51. Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease Andrew Macormber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	514
BUDDHISM AND THE MEDICAL TRADITIONS
52. "Indian Massage" from Sun Simiao's Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold Michael Stanley-Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
53. Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics: "The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician" from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold Nathan Sivin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	538
54. Using the Golden Needle: Nagaljuna Bodhisattva's Ophthalmological Treatise and Other Sources in the Essentials of Medical Treatment Katja Triplett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
55. Buddhism in Choson Dynasty Medical Compilations Taehyung Lee and Kang Yeonseok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	549
56. Determining Karmic Illness: Kajiwara Shozen's Treatment of Rai/Leprosy in Book of the Simple Physician Andrew Edmund Goble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
57. Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician TueTinh C. Michele Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
58. The Dong Nhan Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy's Medical Encyclopedia Leslie E. de Vries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
59. An Abhidhamma Perspective: Causes of Illness in a Burmese Buddhist Medical System Pyi Phyo Kyaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575
60.Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
61. The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	593
62. Did the Buddha Really Author the Classic Tibetan Medical Text? A Critical Examination from The Lamp to Dispel Darkness Janet Gyatso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	602
Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	615
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	675

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 704
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 27
- Other: 28 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: September 25, 2017
ISBN: 9780231544269