Magical Medicine?: Japanese Buddhist Medical Knowledge and Ritual Instruction for Healing the Physical Body

This article surveys textual sources that pertain to ‘medicine’ as a set of ideas produced and maintained as a social and cultural system of knowledge in early and medieval Japanese Buddhism. Terminological problems faced in working on this material such as ‘reli...

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Main Author: Triplett, Katja 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Center 2012
In: Japanese religions
Year: 2012, Volume: 37, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 63-92
Further subjects:B Medicine
B Japanese Buddhism
B Ritual
B Knowledge
B Ishinpō
B Daigo-ji