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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of essays dedicated to the description and interpretation of Tibetan medical knowledge across different historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts.
Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets
History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version of history lost its power and Buryats, like other Siberian indigenous peoples, were able to revive religious and cultural traditions that had been suppressed by the Soviet state. In the process, they also recovered knowledge about the past that the Soviet Union had silenced. Borrowing the analytic lens of the chronotope from Bakhtin, Quijada argues that rituals have chronotopes which situate people within...
The Buddha's Art of Healing
This lavishly illustrated book provides the general reader with the first authentic introduction to the world of Tibetan medicine, offering unparalleled access to its wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and lore. 140 illustrations, 120 in full color.
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