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CONTENTS: Buddhism and Medicine
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Acknowledgments
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xi
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Abbreviations
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xiii
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Introduction
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xv
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EARLY MODERNITY
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Buddhist Monastic Physicians' Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides
Katja Triplett
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3
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2.
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On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin's
Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century)
Katja Triplett
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16
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3.
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Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century China: Three Prefaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585-1664)
Volker Scheid
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22
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An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsultrim's "The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven's White Flower" (1785)
Batsaikhan Norov, Vesna A. Wallace, and Batchimeg Usukhbayar
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33
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Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan's "On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord" (1869)
Justin B. Stein
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38
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No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against
Yaksa Healing Rituals (1851)
Alexander McKinley
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45
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"Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition": Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era
C. Pierce Salguero
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RUPTURES AND RECONCILIATIONS
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Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century)
Joshua Captitanio
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65
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Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu's "Buddhism and Science" (1923) and Ding Fubao's
Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920)
Gregory Adam Scott
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87
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Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu's
Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952)
William A. McGrath
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94
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Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist's Paintings of the
Heart Sutra
Paula K. R. Arai
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100
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12.
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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)
Ben P. Joffe
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108
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Science and Authority in Tibetan medicine: Gonpokyap's "Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body" (2008)
Jenny Bright
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118
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14.
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"We Will Live Long Lives and Attain Great Health": Monk Changlyu's
The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014)
Emily S. Wu
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127
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HYBRIDITIES AND INNOVATIONS
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Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang's
Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966)
Cody R. Bahir
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137
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Making a Modern Image of Jivaka: "First Encounters with Jivaka Komarabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image" (1969)
Anthony Lovenheim Irwin
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147
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Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy
Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie
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158
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Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yozo's "Vihara Priests and Interfaith Chaplains" (2014)
Levi McLaughlin
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164
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Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts
Thomas Nathan Patton
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177
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MEDITATION AND MENTAL HEALTH
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Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro's
Naikan and Medicine (1979)
Clark Chilson
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189
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21.
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A Contemporary Shingon Priest's Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Oshita Daien (2006-2016)
Nathan Jishin Michon
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196
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22.
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Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group's
Mindful UK (2015)
Joanna Cook
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204
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23.
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Medicalizing Son Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sunim
Lina Koleilat
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215
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Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and Dvid Loy's "Beyond Mindfulness" (2013)
David L. McMahan
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221
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CROSSING BOUNDARIES
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Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha's
The Mantrayana of Rarh (1979)
Projit Bihari Mukharji
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231
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Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China
Thomas David DuBois
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235
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27.
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Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer
Kin Cheung and C. Pierce Salguero
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241
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"We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods": Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman
Minjung Noh and C. Pierce Salguero
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252
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Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters: Avalokitesvara Joins the New Age Pantheon
C. Pierce Salguero
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264
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BUDDHIST HEALING IN PRACTICE
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Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional medicine: An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer
Assunta Hunter
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275
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Burmese Alchemy in Practice: Master U Shein's Healing Practice
Celine Coderey
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281
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Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Seinlay P. Trogawa
Susannah Deane
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289
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Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan: With a Translation of His "Edible Letters"
Mona Schrempf
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298
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Japanese Buddhist Women's "Way of Healing"
Paula K. R. Arai
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310
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35.
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Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia
C. Pierce Salguero
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317
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Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents
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327
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Glossary
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331
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References
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341
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List of Contributors
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373
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Index
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