Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery
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Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India : Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery. / Zysk, Kenneth Gregory.
2nd Revised edition ed. New Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, 2021. 288 p. (Indian Medical and Ayurvedic Heritage).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India
T2 - Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery
AU - Zysk, Kenneth Gregory
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Since the first edition of Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India appeared, little new evidence has come to light to change the fundamental views offered in it. After carefully going through the text once again, I tried to clarify fuzzing points and elaborate on underdeveloped ideas. The importance of medicine in the history of Buddhism cannot be underestimated. This book lays out the basic tenets of a sophisticated medical doctrine and practice that developed in the Buddhist monastic communities from around the 4th century BCE. The role of Buddhist medicine in the development of the Sanskrit tradition of Ayurveda is the focus of the study. The results indicate that early Buddhist medicine was fundamental to the formation of ayurvedic medical thinking and practice in ancient India.
AB - Since the first edition of Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India appeared, little new evidence has come to light to change the fundamental views offered in it. After carefully going through the text once again, I tried to clarify fuzzing points and elaborate on underdeveloped ideas. The importance of medicine in the history of Buddhism cannot be underestimated. This book lays out the basic tenets of a sophisticated medical doctrine and practice that developed in the Buddhist monastic communities from around the 4th century BCE. The role of Buddhist medicine in the development of the Sanskrit tradition of Ayurveda is the focus of the study. The results indicate that early Buddhist medicine was fundamental to the formation of ayurvedic medical thinking and practice in ancient India.
M3 - Book
SN - 9788120815070
SN - 9788120815285
T3 - Indian Medical and Ayurvedic Heritage
BT - Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India
PB - Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
CY - New Delhi
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