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29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters:Avalokiteśvara Joins the New Age Pantheon

From the book Buddhism and Medicine

  • C. Pierce Salguero
https://doi.org/10.7312/salg18936-032
© 2019 Columbia University Press
From the book
Buddhism and Medicine
Buddhism and Medicine

Chapters in this book (45)

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Early Modernity
1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians’ Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides
2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin’s Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century)
3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century: China Three Prefaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585–1664)
4. An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian Treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsültim’s “The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven’s White Flower” (1785)
5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan’s “On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord” (1869)
6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851)
7. “Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition”: Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era
Ruptures and Reconciliations
8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century)
9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu’s “Buddhism and Science” (1923) and Ding Fubao’s Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920)
10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu’s Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952)
11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist’s Paintings of the Heart Sūtra
12. Mantras for Modernity: Nida Chenagtsang’s “Mantra Healing Is an Indispensable Branch of Tibetan Traditional Medicine” (2003) and “A Rough Explanation of How Mantras Work” (2015)
13. Science and Authority in Tibetan Medicine: Gönpokyap’s “Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body” (2008)
14. “We Will Live Long Lives and Attain Great Health”: Monk Changlyu’s The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014)
Hybridities and Innovations
15. Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang’s Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966)
16. Making a Modern Image of Jīvaka: “First Encounters with Jīvaka Komārabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image” (1969)
17. Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy
18. Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō’s “Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains” (2014)
19. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts
Meditation and Mental Health
20. Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro’s Naikan and Medicine (1979)
21. A Contemporary Shingon Priest’s Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Ōshita Daien (2006–2016)
22. Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group, Mindful UK (2015)
23. Medicalizing Sŏn Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sŭnim
24. Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013) 24. Misuses of Mindfulness Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013)
Crossing Boundaries
25. Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha’s The Mantrayāna of Rārh (1979)
26. Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China
27. Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer
28. “We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods”: Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman
29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters:Avalokiteśvara Joins the New Age Pantheon
Buddhist Healing in Practice
30. Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional: Medicine An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer
31. Burmese Alchemy in Practice: Master U Shein’s Healing Practice
32. Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Teinlay P. Trogawa
33. Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan: With a Translation of His “Edible Letters”
34. Japanese Buddhist Women’s “Way of Healing”
35. Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia
Geographical Table of Contents
Glossary
References
Contributors
Index
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