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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People's Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine.
Contributors include: Henk W.A. Blezer, Yang Ga, Tony Chui, Katharina Sabernig, Tawni Tidwell, Tsering Samdrup, Carmen Simioli, William A. McGrath, Susannah Deane and Barbara Gerke

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Contents



Introduction: Navigating the Ocean of Tibetan Medical Literature

William A. McGrath



A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Bibliography

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Part 1: The Vicissitudes of Meaning in Context

1 A New Sense of (Dark) Humor in Tibet: Brown Phlegm and Black Bile

Henk Blezer



2 A Preliminary Study on the Biography of Yutok Yoenten Goenpo the Elder: Reflections on the Origins of Tibetan Medicine

Yang Ga



3 "Secret Medicine" in the Writings of Sanggye Gyatso: the Encoded Esoteric Material of Therapeutics

Tony Chui



4 Visceral Anatomy as Depicted in Tibetan Medicine

Katharina Sabernig



5 The Modern Biomedical Conception of Cancer and Its Many Potential Correlates in the Tibetan Medical Tradition

Tawni Tidwell



Part 2: Medicine and Religion in Context

6 The Nine-Fold Magical Cord Cycle: Investigating ''Phrul gyi the gu brgu skor, a Wartime Medical Manual

Tsering Samdrup



7 Knowledge, Imagery, and the Treatment of Communicable Disease in the Vase of the Amrta of Immortality: a Preliminary Analysis of a Nyingma Medical Corpus

Carmen Simioli



8 Tantric Divination and Empirical Diagnosis: a Genealogy of Channel Prasena Rituals in the Tibetan Medical Tradition

William A. McGrath



9 Madness and the Spirits: Examining the Role of Spirits in Mental Illness in the Tibetan Communities of Darjeeling

Susannah Deane



10 Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke



Index