RT Book
T1 Illness and enlightenment: exploring Tibetan perspectives on madness in text and everyday life
A1 Deane, Susannah
LA English
PP New York Oxford
PB Berghahn Books
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1919302018
AB Tibetan understandings of nyoné — ‘madness’— encompass a broad range of concepts. Perspectives on the causation and treatment of madness as an illness are informed by Tantric and medical understandings of mind-body structure and (dys)functioning, as well as people’s relationships with non-human entities. In addition, ‘madness’ may be seen as a sign of enlightenment in the case of some Tantric practitioners. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, as well as examination of Tibetan medical and religious texts, Illness and Enlightenment explores the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships
AB "Tibetan conception of nyoné - 'madness'- encompasses a broad range of ideas about mind and body and an individual's place in the world. Here, Tantric and medical understandings of mind-body structure and (dys)functioning, and engagements with non-human entities, inform complex notions of the prevention, causation, and treatment of madness as an illness, as well as understandings of 'madness' as an indicator of Buddhist or Bon enlightenment. This work brings together interview material from ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, with an examination of Tibetan medical and religious texts, to explore the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships"-- Provided by publisher
CN RC451.C62
SN 978-1-80539-842-4
K1 Mental Illness : Alternative treatment : China : Tibet Autonomous Region
K1 Medicine, Tibetan
K1 Mental Illness : Religious aspects : Buddhism
K1 Mind and body : Religious aspects : Buddhism
K1 Mind and body : China : Tibet Autonomous Region
K1 MEDICAL / Mental Health
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
K1 Medical Anthropology
K1 Anthropology of religion
K1 Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion
DO 10.1515/9781805398424