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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

1 online resource (vi, 449 p.) : ill., maps

ISBN 9004155503 (hardback : alk. paper)

ISBN 9789004155503 (hardback : alk. paper)

Brill’s Tibetan studies library, ISSN 1568-6183 ; v. 10/10

Includes bibliographical references and index

Spirit causation and illness in Tibetan medicine / Geoffrey Samuel -- ’Life-wind illness’ in Tibetan medicine: depression, generalised anxiety, and panic attack / Eric Jacobson -- Tibetan medicine and the classification and treatment of mental illness / Colin Millard -- ’Magical movements’ (’phrul ’khor) in the Bon tradition and possible applications as a CIM therapy / M. Alejandro Chaoul -- An early Tibetan history of Indian medicine / Dan Martin -- Tibetan and Chinese pulse diagnostics: a comparison-with special reference to locations for pulse taking / Yan Zhen and Cai Jingfeng -- The making of the Blue beryl: some remarks on the textual sources of the famous commentary of Sangye Gyatsho (1653-1705) / Olaf Czaja -- Preliminary investigations into new oral and textual sources on Byang Lugs: the ’northern school’ of Tibetan medicine / Theresia Hofer -- Embryology and embodiment in Tibetan literature: narrative epistemology and the rhetoric of identity / Frances Garrett ---

Brief outlook: desiderata in the study of the history of Tibetan medicine / Henk Blezer ... et al.

Himalayan medical encounters: the establishment of biomedicine in Tibet and in Indian exile / Alex McKay -- Integrating abstraction: modernising medicine at Lhasa’s Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams -- Sa cha ’di ma ’phrod na: displacement and traditional Tibetan medicine among Tibetan refugees in India / Audrey Prost -- Sherpa beliefs and western medicine: providing health care at Khunde Hospital, Nepal / Susan Heydon -- Bon lineage doctors and the local transmission of knowing medical practice in Nagchu / Mona Schrempf -- A crisis of confidence: a comparison between shifts in Tibetan medical education in Nepal and Tibet / Sienna Craig -- Making a medical living: on the monetisation of Tibetan medicine in Spiti / Florian Besch -- The land of milk and barley: medicinal plants, staple foods, and discourses of subjectivity in Rgyal thang / Denise Glover -- Engaging the subtle body: re-approaching bla rituals in the Himalaya / Barbara Gerke ---

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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