China: dawn of a golden age, 200-750 AD
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The Dunhuang caves hold the greatest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. In this book, Ning Qiang explores the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642, to illustrate the interrelationship of art, religion & politics. His study explains how the historical study of art & the pictorial …
The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world's largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642. It is this remarkable cave-temple that forms the focus of Ning Qiang…
Translating Buddhist medicine in medieval China
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Translating Buddhist medicine in medieval China
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Translating Buddhist medicine in medieval China
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Illuminates and analyzes the ways Chinese Buddhist writers understood and adapted Indian medical knowledge and healing practices and explained them to local audiences. By integrating religious studies, translation studies, and literature with the history of medicine, the book re…
Translating Buddhist medicine in medieval China
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Type: Book
Illuminates and analyzes the ways Chinese Buddhist writers understood and adapted Indian medical knowledge and healing practices and explained them to local audiences. By integrating religious studies, translation studies, and literature with the history of medicine, the book re…
This interdisciplinary study examines the reception of Ayurvedic knowledge and other Indian medical teachings in medieval China through analysis of Buddhist texts, including translations from Indian languages as well as Chinese compositions between the second and ninth centuries.
Translating Buddhist medicine in medieval China
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Type: Book