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CONTENTS: Buddhism and Medicine
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Acknowledgments
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xvii
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Abbreviations
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xix
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Introduction
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xxi
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DOCTRINAL CONSIDERATIONS
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1
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Illness, Cure, and Care
Selections from the Pali Canon
Dhivan Thomas Jones
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3
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2.
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The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhis Discourse
Analayo
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12
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3.
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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
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20
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4.
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Understanding the Dosa:
A Summary of the Art of Medicine from the Sutra of Golden Light
C. Pierce Salguero
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30
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5.
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Fetal Suffering in the
Descent Into the Womb Sutra
Amy Paris Langenberg
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41
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6.
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Health and Sickness of Body and Mind:
Selections from the Yogacara-bhumi
Dan Lusthaus
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49
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Overcoming Illness with Insight:
Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature Illness and Its Manifestations
Edward R. Drott
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61
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8.
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Karma in the Bathhouse:
The Sutra on Bathing the Sangha in the Bathhouse
C. Pierce Salguero
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84
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Liberating the Whole World:
Sudhana's Meeting with Samantanetra from the Sutra of the Entry Into the Realm of Reality
William J. Giddings
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92
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HEALING AND MONASTIC DISCIPLINE
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103
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Medical Practice as Wrong Livelihood:
Selections from the Pali Discourses, Vinaya, and Commentaries
David Fiordalis
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105
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Nuns, Laywomen, and Healing:
Three Rules from a Sanskrit Nuns' Disciplinary Code
Amy Paris Langenberg
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113
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12.
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Stories of Healing from the
Section on Medicines in the Pali Vinaya
David Fiordalis
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118
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13.
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Rules on Medicines from the
Five-Part Vinaya of the Mahisasaka School
C. Pierce Salguero
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125
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14.
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Food and Medicine in the Chinese Vinayas:
Daoxuan's Emended Commentary on Monastic Practices from the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya
J. E. E. Pettit
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130
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Toilet Care in Buddhist Monasteries:
Health Decency, and Ritual
Ann Heirman and Mathieu Torck
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137
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Health Care in Indian Monasteries:
Selections from Yijin's Record of the Inner Law Sent Home from the Southern Seas
Christoph Kleine
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145
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BUDDHIST HEALERS
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161
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Two
Sutras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon
Marcus Bingenheimer
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163
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18.
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The Buddha Heals:
Past and Present Lives
Phyllis Granoff
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170
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19.
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The Buddha's Past Life as a Snakebite Doctor:
The Visa-vanta Jataka
Michael Slouber
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180
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20.
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The Training and Treatments of an Indian Doctor in a Buddhist Text:
A Sanskrit Biography of Jivaka
Gregory Schopen
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184
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21.
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A Selection of Buddhist Healing Narratives from East Asia
C. Pierce Salguero
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205
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22.
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The Buddha and the Bath Water:
How the Bodhisattva Gyoki Founded Koya Temple
D. Max Moerman
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219
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23.
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Esoteric Ritual Remedies:
Kukai's Cures for Emperor Konin
Pamela D. Winfield
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222
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"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
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226
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HEALING RITES
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233
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Help for the Sick, the Dying, and the Misbegotten:
A Sanskrit Version of the Sutra of Bhaisajyaguru
Gregory Schopen
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235
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The Sutra on the Dharani of the Vast, Complete, and Unobstructed Great Compassion
of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara with a Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes
William J. Giddings
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252
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Tantric Medicine in a Buddhist Proto-Tantra
Michael Slouber
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286
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Healing
Dharanis:
A Collection of Medieval Spells from the Taisho Tripitaka
C. Pierce Salguero
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292
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29.
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Seals of the Bodhisattva:
A Buddhist Talismanic Seal manual from Dunhuang
Paul Copp
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304
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30.
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"The Ritual Altar of Kundali Vajra for Treating Illnesses" from the
Collected Dharani Sutras
Joshua Capitanio
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314
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31.
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Curing with Karma and Confession:
Two Short Liturgies from Dunhuang
Stephen F. Teiser
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322
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Childbirth in Early Medieval Japan:
Ritual Economies and Medical Emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort's Labor
Anna Andreeva
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336
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The Ox-Bezoar Empowerment for Fertility and Safe Childbirth:
Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections
Benedetta Lomi
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351
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The
Verses on the Victor's Armor:
A Pali Text Used for Protection and Healing in Thailand
Justin Thomas McDaniel
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358
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Selections from a Mongolian Manual of Buddhist Medicine
Vesna A. Wallace
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363
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MEDITATION AS CURE AND ILLNESS
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371
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Healing Sicknesses Caused by Meditation:
"The Enveloping Butter Contemplation" from the Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness
Eric M. Greene
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373
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Healing with Meditation:
"Treating Illness" from Zhiyi's Shorter treatise on samatha and Vipasyana
C. Pierce Salguero
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382
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Getting Sick Over Nothing:
Hyesim and Hakuin on the Maladies of Meditation
Juhn Ahn
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390
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Buddhist Method as Medicine:
The Chan Materia Medica and Its Ming Dynasty Elaboration
Robban Toleno
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398
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40.
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Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life:
Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity
Matthew T. Kapstein
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405
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41.
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Rangjung Dorje's
Key to the Essential Points of Wind and Mind
Douglas Duckworth
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413
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42.
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Treating Disorders of the Subtle Winds in Tibetan Buddhism
Todd P. Marek and Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie
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418
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43.
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How to Deal with Wind Illnesses:
Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia
Andrew Skilton and Phibul Choompolpaisal
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425
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HYBRIDITY IN BUDDHIST HEALING
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431
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Correlative Cosmology, Moral Rectitude, and Buddhist Notions of Health:
Selections from the Sutra of Trapusa and Bhallika
Ori Tavor
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433
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45.
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Apotropaic Substances as Medicine in Buddhist Healing Methods:
Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Five Sciences
Dominic Steavu
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441
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Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans:
Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes
Michael Stanley-Baker and Dolly Yang
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454
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"The Mysterious Names on the Hands and Fingers":
Healing Hand Mnemonics in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Marta E. Hanson
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478
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Selections on Illness Divination from
Bodhidharma's Treasure of the Palm
Stephanie Homola
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486
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Buddhist Health, Diet, and Sex Advice from Ancient Korea
Don Baker and Hyunsook Lee
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494
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50.
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Vessel Examination in the
Medicine of the Moon King
William A. McGrath
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501
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51.
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Moxibustion for Demons:
Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease
Andrew Macomber
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514
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BUDDHISM AND THE MEDICAL TRADITIONS
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531
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52.
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"Indian Massage" from Sun Simiao's
Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold
Michael Stanley-Baker
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533
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Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics:
"The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician" from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold
Nathan Sivin
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538
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Using the Golden Needle:
Nagarjuna Bodhisattva's Ophthalmological Treatise and Other Sources in the Essentials of Medical Treatment
Katja Triplett
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543
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Buddhism in Choson Dynasty Medical Compilations
Taehyung Lee and Kang Yeonseok
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549
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Determining Karmic Illness:
Kajiwara Shozen's Treatment of Rai/Leprosy in Book of the Simple Physician
Andrew Edmund Goble
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553
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Selections from
Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician Tue Tinh
C. Michele Thompson
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561
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58.
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The Dong Nhan Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy's Medical Encyclopedia
Leslie E. de Vries
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569
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59.
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An
Abhidhamma Perspective:
Causes of Illness in a Burmese Buddhist Medical System
Pyi Phyo Kyaw
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575
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60.
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Jewels in Medicines:
On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises
Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger
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583
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61.
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The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge
Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger
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593
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62.
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Did the Buddha Really Author the Classic Tibetan Medical Text?
A Critical Examination from The Lamp to Dispel Darkness
Janet Gyatso
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602
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Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents
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609
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Glossary
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615
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References
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629
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List of Contributors
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667
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Index
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675
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