Being human in a Buddhist world. An intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet

by Janet Gyatso

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First edition

New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 7 , 519, 1 ; over 50 illustrations from various sources, many in color; fine copy in a fine jacket. Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It

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