Description: This anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern Buddhist texts with contextualizing introductions by leading international scholars in Buddhist studies, history of medicine, and a range of other fields.
Brief description: C. Pierce Salguero (PhD, History of Medicine, Hopkins) is Associate Professor of Asian History and Religious Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (Pennsylvania, 2014), Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, Ayurveda (Hohm, 2015), and Buddhism and Medicine: A Global History (Columbia, 2019) and the editor of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (Columbia, 2017).
Review Quotes: C. Pierce Salguero's Buddhism and Medicine is an amazingly rich and comprehensive collection of studies of texts and observed practices from all over the Asian lands where Buddhism's manifestations made extensive contributions to the cultures. This book is a remarkable labor of scholarship and dedication--I cannot recommend it highly enough for anyone interested in Buddhism, the history of medicine, and the mutually fruitful interaction of the Asian medicine traditions and Western biomedical tradition that is happening all around us today.--Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University