Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Tibetan medicine, Buddhism, and the visual arts / Theresia Hofer
  • Part I. Theoretical foundations and practices of Tibetan medicine : The art of Tibetan medical practice / Barbara Gerke
  • Body and mind in Tibetan medicine and Tantric Buddhism / Geoffrey Samuel
  • Foundations of pharmacology and the compounding of Tibetan medicines / Theresia Hofer
  • External therapies in Tibetan medicine: The Four Tantras, contemporary practice and a preliminary history of surgery / Pasang Yontan Arya
  • Medicine, astrology, and divination / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
  • Vignette 1. A day at the Astrology Department of the Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala, India / Inger K. Vasstveit
  • Tibetan medicine in the world: local scenes, global transformations / Sienna R. Craig
  • Part II. Medicine, Buddhism and historical developments : The Buddhas of medicine / Gyurme Dorje
  • The origins of the Four Tantras and an account of its author, Yuthog Yonten Gonpo / Yang Ga
  • The making of medical history, twelfth to seventeenth century / Frances Garrett
  • Buddhist practices and ideals in Desi Sangye Gyatso's medical paintings / Janet Gyatso
  • Vignette 2. The tree murals of Labrang Monastery's Medical College, Eastern Tibet / Katharina Sabernig
  • Illustrated Materia medica prints, manuscripts, and modern books / Theresia Hofer
  • The journeys of Tibetan medicine / Martin Saxer
  • Vignette 3. Pillars of Tibetan medicine: the Chagpori and Mentsikhang Institutes in Lhasa / Theresia Hofer, Knud Larsen
  • Appendices : Extracts from the Discourse on the particularly extensive former aspirations of the seven Tathāgatas ; Atiśa's means for attainment entitled Rite which purifies all the obscurations of past actions ; Layout of the mandala of the Discourse of the Medicine Buddhas in eight hundred lines according to the Compendium of all the Tantras ; A summary of the second chapter of the Heart essence of Yuthogpa: the nectar stream of empowerment ritual.