Translating Buddhist medicine in medieval China / C. Pierce Salguero.
Illuminates and analyzes the ways Chinese Buddhist writers understood and adapted Indian medical knowledge and healing practices and explained them to local audiences. By integrating religious studies, translation studies, and literature with the history of medicine, the book reconstructs the crucia...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Encounters with Asia.
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Table of Contents:
- The Buddhist Medical Transmission
- Translators and Translation Practice
- Translating Medicine in Buddhist Scriptures
- Rewriting Buddhist Medicine
- Popularizing Buddhist Medicine.