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Healing and Restoring: Health and Medicine in the World’s Religious Traditions
Buddhist Medical History
Format: Book Chapter
Publication Date: Nov 30, 1988
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Pages: 9 - 32
Sources ID: 92436
Notes: This is most likely the best introductory reading on Buddhist medicine. Despite its name, the essay is more concerned with outlining basic doctrine than with historical developments. The author provides a cohesive and readable orientation to the multifaceted relationship between Buddhist thought and medicine.
Visibility: Public (group default)