Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China – June 3, 2014

Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (Encounters with Asia) Hardcover – June 3, 2014

Author: Visit Amazon's C. Pierce Salguero Page | Language: English | ISBN: 081224611X | Format: PDF, EPUB

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"C. Pierce Salguero skillfully uses religious studies, translation studies, and anthropology in his investigations. He provides a clear and nuanced account of the complex processes that brought Buddhist doctrines to China and enriched them with new ideas and practices. In the process he demonstrates that here, as elsewhere, 'knowledge about disease, healing, and the body is always inextricably interwoven with the social, economic, political, and personal histories of the people involved in its production and consumption."—Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania

"A welcome reframing of the transmission of Buddhist medicine to China. Salguero reimagines this process not as the clash of monoliths but as numerous specific acts of translation. He invites us to see how people made meaning within and between traditions, rather than contenting ourselves with enumerating the contents of traditions as if they were inert containers of ideas."—Robert Ford Campany, Vanderbilt University

"An excellent contribution which sets the stage for very important future work. Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China provides a detailed analytical perspective on a question of profound importance in the intellectual history of Asia."—Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh

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C. Pierce Salguero teaches Asian history at Penn State Abington and has written many books on Asian health and medical practices for general audiences.

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Series: Encounters with Asia
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (June 3, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081224611X
ISBN-13: 978-0812246117
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #631,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)