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Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India by Kenneth G. Zysk
Medicine in the Bhuddist Monastery
The author explains that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support.Drawing one wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary Literature from the pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice. |
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| Author(s) : Kenneth G. Zysk | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 8120815076 | ISBN-13 : 9788120815070 |
| RRP : £12.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : India
Publication Date : 01/12/1998
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass,
Page Length : 200mm
Page Size : 230mm