Description: A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine covering the early modern period to the present.
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: Health and illness have always been concerns of practitioners. These translations of exemplary medical texts from the recent past demonstrate the enduring medical tradition within Buddhism. Not merely a religious tradition, or a system of doctrinal claims, or the texts that contain those claims and their philosophic rationales, Buddhism is effectively a culture in its own right.--Richard K. Payne, author of Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of Mantra