Being Human in a Buddhist World

Critically exploring scientific thought and its relation to religion in traditional Tibetan medicine, Being Human expands our sense of Tibetan cultural history, unpacking the intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious ideals during the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama. Studying the adaptation of Buddhist concepts and values to medical concerns, the book also advances an appreciation of Buddhisms role in the development of Asian and global civilization.

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About the author

Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University, where she serves on the faculty of the Divinty School, the Study of Religion, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Her writing has centered on Tibetan Buddhism and its cultural and intellectual history from the perspective of large issues in the humanities about human experience and its literary presentation. She is the author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary, as well as several edited volumes.

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"An amazing book and a stellar contribution to Columbia University Press's growing catalog of Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhist studies, for it will be the key book on medicine and religion in Tibet for this generation. Like Gyatso's book on autobiography, her new book on medicine will simply be field defining. Little of this literature has received attention to date, and in fact much of it has only been available to a contemporary international scholarly audience for a decade or so." - Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The University of Virginia

Product details

• Authors: Janet Gyatso, Gyatso Janet
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2015
• EAN: 9780231164962
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16496-2
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book; Tibet, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, RELIGION / Religion & Science, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, RELIGION / Buddhism / Theravada, Religion & beliefs, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism; anthropology