Toward a Global History of Buddhism and Medicine

Salguero, C. Pierce

doi:10.1558/bsrv.v32i1.26984

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“…In this study, the mean health score of all comorbid depression is lower than for any of the chronic conditions alone (angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes) or for depression alone (Moussavi et al 2007). See Salguero (2015) about the global history of Buddhist healing. Tibetan medicine and other Asian medical practices are discussed in modern context (Connor and Samuel 2000).…”

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Teaching Transnational Buddhist Meditation with Vipassanā (Neiguan 內觀) and Mindfulness (Zhengnian 正念) for Healing Depression in Contemporary China

Lau

2021

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This paper examines how the teaching of embodied practices of transnational Buddhist meditation has been designated for healing depression explicitly in contemporary Chinese Buddhist communities with the influences of Buddhist modernism in Southeast Asia and globalization. Despite the revival of traditional Chan school meditation practices since the Open Policy, various transnational lay meditation practices, such as vipassanā and mindfulness, have been popularized in monastic and lay communities as a trendy way to heal physical and mental suffering in mainland China. Drawing from a recent ethnographic study of a meditation retreat held at a Chinese Buddhist monastery in South China, this paper examines how Buddhist monastics have promoted a hybrid mode of embodied Buddhist meditation practices, mindfulness and psychoanalytic exercises for healing depression in lay people. With analysis of the teaching and approach of the retreat guided by well-educated Chinese meditation monastics, I argue that some young generation Buddhist communities have contributed to giving active responses towards the recent yearning for individualized bodily practices and the social trend of the “subjective turn” and self-reflexivity in contemporary Chinese society. The hybrid inclusion of mindfulness exercises from secular programs and psychoanalytic exercises into a vipassanā meditation retreat may reflect an attempt to re-contextualize meditation in Chinese Buddhism.

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Section: Mindfulness Practices For Overcoming Illness and Depressionmentioning

confidence: 59%

Teaching Transnational Buddhist Meditation with Vipassanā (Neiguan 內觀) and Mindfulness (Zhengnian 正念) for Healing Depression in Contemporary China

Lau

2021

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“…This overall health is reflected in every aspect of life including thinking, speaking, living and doing. (Liu, 2024).…”

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Human Resource Management in the Healthcare Industry: An Analysis of the Connection Between Patient Care and Buddhist Practice

Huu

2024

Intl. J. Rel.

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Since its inception, Buddhism and medicine have been closely associated, with each having a unique focus on reducing and averting human suffering. Despite the well-established connection between Buddhism and healthcare, there is still a dearth of Buddhist literature that can help healthcare professionals in both their personal and professional lives. Examples of the Buddha as a doctor, the Dharma as a treatment, and laypeople in general as patients can all be found in the sutras. Illness is strongly correlated with an individual's social, cultural, environmental, mental, and physical well-being. It is insufficient to approach medicine by focusing only on symptom elimination; It is crucial to address the psychosocial components of sickness as well as its psychological causes and treatments. All three components must be in harmony for holistic treatment to be provided, and Buddhist philosophy offers medical professionals insight. The medical ethical values of non-malice, compassion, justice, and autonomy are inevitably followed by health care practitioners who get ethical guidance from Buddhist medicine.

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“…1 In this article, I attempt to contribute to this research agenda by considering how the 16th-17thcentury doctor, tantric Buddhist ritual expert, and doctrinal scholar Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen (Sog bzlog pa Blo gros rgyal mtshan, 1552-1624), critically interrogated the textual sources of the Tibetan medical tradition. I ask how Sokdokpa's literary effort to negotiate a rapprochement between traditional Buddhist learning and the practice of medicine in Tibet compares to other attempts to do so 1 For a general survey of Buddhist discourses about and engagements with healing and medicine, see Demiéville ([1937Demiéville ([ ] 1985, and more recently, Salguero (2015). among practicing Tibetan physicians and Buddhist exegetes of his period.…”

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Arguing over the Buddhist Pedigree of Tibetan Medicine: A Case Study of Empirical Observation and Traditional Learning in 16th- and 17th-Century Tibet

Gentry

2019

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This article examines the relationship between the practice and theory of medicine and Buddhism in premodern Tibet. It considers a polemical text composed by the 16th-17th-century Tibetan physician and tantric Buddhist expert Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen, intending to prove the Buddhist canonical status of the Four Medical Tantras, the foundational text of the Tibetan medical tradition. While presenting and analyzing Sokdokpa's polemical writing in the context of the broader debate over the Buddhist pedigree of the Four Tantras that took place during his time, this discussion situates Sokdokpa's reflections on the topic in terms of his broader career as both a practicing physician and a tantric Buddhist ritual and contemplative specialist. It suggests that by virtue of Sokdokpa's tightly interwoven activities in the spheres of medicine and Buddhism, his contribution to this debate gives voice to a sensibility in which empiricist, historicist, and Buddhist ritual and contemplative inflections intermingle in ways that resist easy disentanglement and classification. In this it argues that Sokdokpa's reflections form an important counterpoint to the perspectives considered thus far in the scholarly study of this debate. It also questions if Sokdokpa's style of argumentation might call for a recalibration of how scholars currently construe the roles of tantric Buddhist practice in the appeal by premodern Tibetan physicians to critical and probative criteria. 95 Sog bzlog pa Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1975b), Nges don 'brug sgra, pp. 509-44. 96 Nges don snying po, pp. 233.2-233.3. 97 Nges don snying po, pp. 232.3-232.6. 98 Nges don snying po, p. 234.1. 99 Nges don snying po, pp. 233.6-234.1. On this point Sokdokpa seems to be paraphrasing Tashi Pelzang's 15th century defense. Cf. Gyatso (2015), p. 160. 100 Nges don snying po, pp. 234.1-234.4.

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Toward a Global History of Buddhism and Medicine

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Teaching Transnational Buddhist Meditation with Vipassanā (Neiguan 內觀) and Mindfulness (Zhengnian 正念) for Healing Depression in Contemporary China

Teaching Transnational Buddhist Meditation with Vipassanā (Neiguan 內觀) and Mindfulness (Zhengnian 正念) for Healing Depression in Contemporary China

Human Resource Management in the Healthcare Industry: An Analysis of the Connection Between Patient Care and Buddhist Practice

Arguing over the Buddhist Pedigree of Tibetan Medicine: A Case Study of Empirical Observation and Traditional Learning in 16th- and 17th-Century Tibet

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