Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War 9780824860172

Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War 0824860179, 9780824860172

Confluences of Medicine is the first book-length exploration in English of issues of medicine and society in premodern J

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Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan 2019058783, 9780824881214

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Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan 9780824884222

From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of id

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Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China 9780812209693

This interdisciplinary study examines the reception of Āyurvedic knowledge and other Indian medical teachings in medieva

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Medieval Islamic Medicine 9780748629244

The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650–1500) has, like few others

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Classical Chinese Medicine - Chinese Herbal Medicine: Modern Applications of Traditional Formulas [1 ed.] 0849315689, 9780849315688

A roadmap for easily navigating through the complexities of Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Modern App

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Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society: Buddhist and Taoist Studies II 9780824887438

A pressing need in the recent study of Chinese religion is to connect Buddhist and Taoist doctrine with the actual activ

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Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans 9781501730849

In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients and providers that the VHA has fostered, Gordon finds a working mo

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Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture 9780824862251

Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China

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The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography 9780824846015

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