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Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry: A Perspective from the Anthropology of Knowledge
Knowledge & Society
Short Title: Knowledge & SocietyTibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1998/01//
Pages: 131 - 152
Sources ID: 96371
Visibility: Public (group default)
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The article focuses on the Tibetan buddhist medicine and psychiatry. Healing is innate to Buddhism. And the relationship between the two is extraordinary to the Western mind. The Buddha is the Supreme Physician. The healing treatment, the medicine, and the therapeutic regimen is the Dharma. The attendants are the members of the Order, the Buddhist community. The continual emphasis on the Supreme Physician the Buddha and his medicine His teachings indicates a fundamental attitude of Buddhism dispassionate compassion. The great physician is a model of selfless compassion and devotes his life to easing the pains of others. Retaining an attitude of detachment, he does not allow his emotions to be tangled with his work.