| Description |
1 online resource (x, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 15, 2014-September 8, 2014, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine, Tibetan -- Exhibitions.
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Medicine, Tibetan. |
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Medicine in art -- Exhibitions.
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Medicine in art. |
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Buddhist painting -- Tibet Region -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
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Buddhist painting. |
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Tibet Region. |
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Themes, motives. |
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Tibet. |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogues.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Catalog.
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Exhibition.
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| Added Author |
Hofer, Theresia, editor.
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Gerke, Barbara, 1966-
Art of Tibetan medical practice.
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Rubin Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bodies in balance. New York : Rubin Museum of Art ; Seattle : in association with University of Washington Press, [2014] 9780295993591 (DLC) 2013032639 (OCoLC)857664259 |
| ISBN |
9780295807089 (electronic book) |
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0295807083 (electronic book) |
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9780295993591 |
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0295993596 |
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