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2. The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhist Discourse

From the book Buddhism and Medicine

  • Aniilayo
https://doi.org/10.7312/salg17994-005
© 2017 Columbia University Press
From the book
Buddhism and Medicine
Buddhism and Medicine

Chapters in this book (71)

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Doctrinal Considerations
1. Illness, Cure, and Care Selections from the Pali Canon
2. The Healing Potential of the Awakening Factors in Early Buddhist Discourse
3. Curing/Curating Illness: Selections from the Chapter on the "Sufferings of Illness" from A Grove of Pearls from the Garden of Dharma
4 . Understanding the Dosa Summary of the Art of Medicine from the Sutra of Golden Light
5. Fetal Suffering in the Descent Into the Womb Sutra
6. Health and Sickness of Body and Mind: Selections from the Yogācāra-bhūmi
7. Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature ofillness and Its Manifestations
9. Liberating the Whole World: Sudhana's Meeting with Samantanetra from the Sūtra of the Entry Into the Realm of Reality
HEALING AND MONASTIC DISCIPLINE
10. Medical Practice as Wrong Livelihood: Selections from the Pāli Discourses, Vinaya, and Commentaries
11. Nuns, Laywomen, and Healing: CONTENTS lX Three Rules from a Sanskrit Nuns' Disciplinary Code
12. Stories of Healing from the Section on Medicines in the Pali Vinaya
Rules on Medicines from the Five-Part Vinaya of the Mahisasaka School
14. Food and Medicine in the Chinese Vinayas: Daoxuan's Emended Commentary on Monastic Practices from the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya
15. Toilet Care in Buddhist Monasteries: Health, Decency, and Ritual
16. Health Care in Indian Monasteries: Selections from Yijing's Record of the Inner Law Sent Home from the Southern Seas
BUDDHIST HEALERS
17. Two Sutras on Healing and Healers from the Chinese Canon
18. The Buddha Heals: Past and Present Lives
19. The Buddha's Past Life as a Snakebite Doctor: The Visa-vantajātaka
20. The Training and Treatments of an Indian Doctor in a Buddhist Text: A Sanskrit Biography of Jivaka
21. A Selection of Buddhist Healing Narratives from East Asia C. Pierce Salguero
22. The Buddha and the Bath Water: How the Bodhisattva Gyoki Founded Koya Temple
23. Esoteric Ritual Remedies: Kukai's Cures for Emperor Konin
24. "The Grief of Kings Is the Suffering of Their Subjects": A Cambodian King's Twelfth-Century Network of Hospitals
HEALING RITES
25. Help for the Sick, the Dying, and the Misbegotten: A Sanskrit Version of the Sutra of Bhaisajyaguru
26. The Sutra on the Dharani of the Vast, Complete, and Unobstructed Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokite§vara with a Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes
27. Tantric Medicine in a Buddhist Proto-Tantra
28. Healing Dharanis A Collection of Medieval Spells from the Taisho Tripitaka
29. Seals of the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Talismanic Seal Manual from Dunhuang
30. "The Ritual Altar of Kundali Vajra for Treating Illnesses" from the Collected Dharani Sutras
31. Curing with Karma and Confession: Two Short Liturgies from Dunhuang
32. Childbirth in Early Medieval Japan: Ritual Economies and Medical Emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort's Labor
33. The Ox-Bezoar Empowerment for Fertility and Safe Childbirth: Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections
34. The Verses on the Victor's Armor: A Pali Text Used for Protection and Healing in Thailand
35. Selections from a Mongolian Manual of Buddhist Medicine
MEDITATION AS CURE AND ILLNESS
36. Healing Sicknesses Caused by Meditation: "The Enveloping Butter Contemplation" from the Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness
37. Healing with Meditation: "Treating Illness" from Zhiyi's Shorter Treatise on Samatha and Vipasyana
38. Getting Sick Over Nothing: Hyesim and Hakuin on the Maladies of Meditation
39. Buddhist Method as Medicine: The Chan Materia Medica and Its Ming Dynasty Elaboration
40. Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life: Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity
41. Rangjung Dorje's Key to the Essential Pointsof Wind and Mind
42. Treating Disorders of the Subtle Winds in Tibetan Buddhism
43. How to Deal with Wind Illnesses: Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia
HYBRIDITY IN BUDDHIST HEALING
44. Correlative Cosmology, Moral Rectitude, and Buddhist Notions of Health: Selections from the Sutra of Trapusa and Bhallika
45. Apotropaic Substances as Medicine in Buddhist Healing Methods: Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Five Sciences
46. Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans: Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes
47. ''The Mysterious Names on the Hands and Fingers": Healing Hand Mnemonics in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
48. Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma's Treasure of the Palm
49. Buddhist Health, Diet, and Sex Advice from Ancient Korea
50. Vessel Examination in the Medicine of the Moon King
51. Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease
BUDDHISM AND THE MEDICAL TRADITIONS
52. "Indian Massage" from Sun Simiao's Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold
53. Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics: "The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician" from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold
54. Using the Golden Needle: Nagaljuna Bodhisattva's Ophthalmological Treatise and Other Sources in the Essentials of Medical Treatment
55. Buddhism in Choson Dynasty Medical Compilations
56. Determining Karmic Illness: Kajiwara Shozen's Treatment of Rai/Leprosy in Book of the Simple Physician
57. Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician TueTinh
58. The Dong Nhan Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy's Medical Encyclopedia
59. An Abhidhamma Perspective: Causes of Illness in a Burmese Buddhist Medical System
60.Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises
61. The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge
62. Did the Buddha Really Author the Classic Tibetan Medical Text? A Critical Examination from The Lamp to Dispel Darkness
Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents
Glossary
References
List of Contributors
Index
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