Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources

Doctrinal Considerations. Illness, Cure, and Care: Selections from the Pāli Canon / by Dhivan Thomas Jones --
The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhist Discourse / by Anālayo --
Curing/Curating Illness: Selections from the Chapter on the \"Sufferings of Illness\" from A Grove of Pearls from the Garden of Dharma / by Alexander O. Hsu --
Understanding the Dosa: A Summary of the Art of Medicine from the Sūtra of Golden Light / by C. Pierce Salguero --
Fetal Suffering in the Descent Into the Womb Sūtra / by Amy Paris Langenberg --
Health and Sickness of Body and Mind: Selections from the Yogācāra-bhūmi / by Dan Lusthaus --
Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren\'s Treatise on the Nature of Illness and Its Manifestations / by Edward Drott --
Karma in the Bathhouse: The Sūtra on Bathing the Sangha in the Bathhouse / by C. Pierce Salguero --
. Liberating the Whole World: Sudhana\'s Meeting with Samantanetra from the Sūtra of the Entry Into the Realm of Reality / by William J. Giddings --
Healing and Monastic Discipline. Medical Practice as Wrong Livelihood: Selections from the Pāli Discourses, Vinaya, and Commentaries / by David Fiordalis --
Nuns, Laywomen, and Healing: Three Rules from a Sanskrit Nuns Disciplinary Code / by Amy Paris Langenberg --
Stories of Healing from the Section on Medicines in the Pāli Vinaya / by David Fiordalis --
Rules on Medicines from the Five-Part Vinaya of the Mahīśāsaka School / by C. Pierce Salguero --
Food and Medicine in the Chinese Vinayas: Daoxuan\'s Emended Commentary on Monastic Practices from the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya / by J. E. E. Pettit --
Toilet Care in Buddhist Monasteries: Health, Decency, and Ritual / by Ann Heirman and Mathieu Torck --
Health Care in Indian Monasteries: Selections from Yijing\'s Record of the Inner Law Sent Home from the Southern Seas / by Christoph Kleine --
. Buddhist Healers. Two Sūtras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon / by Marcus Bingenheimer --
The Buddha Heals: Past and Present Lives / by Phyllis Granoff --
The Buddha\'s Past Life as a Snakebite Doctor: The Visa-vanta Jātaka / by Michael Slouber --
The Training and Treatments of an Indian Doctor in a Buddhist Text: A Sanskrit Biography of Jīvaka / by Gregory Schopen --
A Selection of Buddhist Healing Narratives from East Asia / by C. Pierce Salguero --
The Buddha and the Bath Water: How the Bodhisattva Gyōki Founded Koya Temple / by D. Max Moerman --
Esoteric Ritual Remedies: Kūkai\'s Cures for Emperor Kōnin / by Pamela Winfield --
\"The Grief of Kings Is the Suffering of Their Subjects\": A Cambodian King\'s Twelfth-Century Network of Hospitals / by Peter D. Sharrock and Claude Jacques --
Healing Rites. Help for the Sick / Dying and Misbegotten: A Sanskrit Version of the Sūtra of Bhaisajyaguru / by Gregory Schopen --
. The Sūtra on the Dhāranī of the Vast, Complete, and Unobstructed Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara with a Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes / by William J. Giddings --
Tantric Medicine in a Buddhist Proto-Tantra / by Michael Slouber --
Healing Dhāranīs: A Collection of Medieval Spells from the Taishō Tripitaka / by C. Pierce Salguero --
Seals of the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Talismanic Seal Manual from Dunhuang / by Paul Copp --
\"The Ritual Altar of Kundalī Vajra for Treating Illnesses\" from the Collected Dhāranī Sūtras / by Josh Capitanio --
Curing with Karma and Confession: Two Short Liturgies from Dunhuang / by Stephen F. Teiser --
Childbirth in Early Medieval Japan: Ritual Economies and Medical Emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort\'s Labor / by Anna Andreeva --
The Ox-Bezoar Empowerment for Fertility and Safe Childbirth: Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections / by Benedetta Lomi --
. The Verses on the Victor\'s Armor: A Pāli Text Used for Protection and Healing in Thailand / by Justin Thomas McDaniel --
Selections from a Mongolian Manual of Buddhist Medicine / by Vesna A. Wallace --
Meditation as Cure and Illness. Healing Sicknesses Caused by Meditation: \"The Enveloping Butter Contemplation\" from the Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness / by Eric Greene --
Healing with Meditation: \"Treating Illness\" from Zhiyi\'s Shorter Treatise on Śamatha and Vipaśyanā / by C. Pierce Salguero --
Getting Sick Over Nothing: Hyesim and Hakuin on the Maladies of Meditation / by Juhn Ahn --
Buddhist Method as Medicine: The Chan Materia Medica and its Ming Dynasty Elaboration / by Robban Toleno --
Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life: Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity / by Matthew T. Kapstein --
Rangjung Dorjé\'s Key to the Essential Points of Wind and Mind / by Douglas Duckworth --
. Treating Disorders of the Subtle Winds in Tibetan Buddhism / by Todd P. Marek and Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie --
How to Deal with Wind Illnesses: Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia / by Andrew Skilton and Phibul Choompolpaisal --
Hybridity in Buddhist Healing. Correlative Cosmology / Moral Rectitude / and Buddhist Notions of Health: Selections from the Sūtra of Trapusa and Bhallika / by Ori Tavor --
Apotropaic Substances as Medicine in Buddhist Healing Methods: Nāgārjuna\'s Treatise on the Five Sciences / by Dominic Steavu --
Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans: Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes / by Michael Stanley-Baker and Dolly Yang --
\"The Mysterious Names on the Hands and Fingers\": Healing Hand Mnemonics in Medieval Chinese Buddhism / by Marta Hanson --
Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma\'s Treasure of the Palm / by Stephanie Homola --
Buddhist Health, Diet, and Sex Advice in Ancient Korea / by Don Baker and Hyunsook Lee --
. Vessel Examination in the Medicine of the Moon King / by William A. McGrath --
Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease / by Andrew Macomber --
Buddhism in the Medical Traditions. \"Indian Massage\" from Sun Simiao\'s Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold / by Michael Stanley-Baker --
Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics: \"The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician\" from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold / by Nathan Sivin --
Using the Golden Needle: Nāgārjuna Bodhisattva\'s Ophthalmological Treatise and Other Sources in the Essentials of Medical Treatment / by Katja Triplett --
Buddhism in Chosōn Dynasty Medical Compilations / by Kang Yeonseok and Taehyung Lee --
Determining Karmic Illness: Kajiwara Shōzen\'s Treatment of Rai/Leprosy in His Book of the Simple Physician / by Andrew Goble --
Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South / by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician Tue Tinh / by C. Michele Thompson --
. The Dong Nhân Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy\'s Medical Encyclopedia / by Leslie E. de Vries --
An Abhidhamma Perspective: Causes of Illness in a Burmese Buddhist Medical System / by Pyi Phyo Kyaw --
Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises / by Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger --
The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge / by Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger --
Did the Buddha Really Author the Classic Tibetan Medical Text? A Critical Examination from The Lamp to Dispel Darkness / by Janet Gyatso.