Over the centuries, Buddhist ideas have influenced medical thought and practice in complex and varied ways in diverse regions and cultures. A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine.

Covering the early modern period to the present, this anthology focuses on the many ways Buddhism and medicine were shaped by the forces of colonialism, science, and globalization, as well as ruptures and reconciliations between tradition and modernity. Editor C. Pierce Salguero and an international collection of scholars highlight diversity and innovation in the encounters between Buddhist and medical thought. The chapters contain a wide range of sources presenting different perspectives rooted in distinct times and places, including translations of published and unpublished documents and transcripts of ethnographic interviews as well as accounts by missionaries and colonial authorities and materials from the contemporary United States and United Kingdom. Together, these varied sources illustrate the many intersections of Buddhism and medicine in the past and how this nexus continues to be crucial in today's global context.
Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources, C. Pierce Salguero (editor), Hardcover, 424 pp, $150.00

C. Pierce Salguero is associate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University's Abington College. He is the editor of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (Columbia, 2017) and the author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (2014) and Traditional Thai Medicine (2016).

CONTENTS: Buddhism and Medicine
Acknowledgments		xi
Abbreviations		xiii
Introduction		xv
EARLY MODERNITY
1.	Buddhist Monastic Physicians' Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides Katja Triplett	3
2.	On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin's Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century) Katja Triplett	16
3.	Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century China: Three Prefaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585-1664) Volker Scheid	22
4.	An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsultrim's "The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven's White Flower" (1785) Batsaikhan Norov, Vesna A. Wallace, and Batchimeg Usukhbayar	33
5.	Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan's "On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord" (1869) Justin B. Stein	38
6.	No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yaksa Healing Rituals (1851) Alexander McKinley	45
7.	"Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition": Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era C. Pierce Salguero
RUPTURES AND RECONCILIATIONS
8.	Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century) Joshua Captitanio	65
9.	Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu's "Buddhism and Science" (1923) and Ding Fubao's Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920) Gregory Adam Scott	87
10.	Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu's Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952) William A. McGrath	94
11.	Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist's Paintings of the Heart Sutra Paula K. R. Arai	100
12.	Mantras for Modernity: Nida Chenagtsang's "Mantra Healing Is an Indispensable Branch of Tibetan Traditional Medicine" (2003) and "A Rough Explanation of How Mantras Work" (2015) Ben P. Joffe	108
13.	Science and Authority in Tibetan medicine: Gonpokyap's "Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body" (2008) Jenny Bright	118
14.	"We Will Live Long Lives and Attain Great Health": Monk Changlyu's The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014) Emily S. Wu	127
HYBRIDITIES AND INNOVATIONS
15.	Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang's Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966) Cody R. Bahir	137
16.	Making a Modern Image of Jivaka: "First Encounters with Jivaka Komarabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image" (1969) Anthony Lovenheim Irwin	147
17.	Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie	158
18.	Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yozo's "Vihara Priests and Interfaith Chaplains" (2014) Levi McLaughlin	164
19.	Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts Thomas Nathan Patton	177
MEDITATION AND MENTAL HEALTH
20.	Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro's Naikan and Medicine (1979) Clark Chilson	189
21.	A Contemporary Shingon Priest's Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Oshita Daien (2006-2016) Nathan Jishin Michon	196
22.	Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group's Mindful UK (2015) Joanna Cook	204
23.	Medicalizing Son Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sunim Lina Koleilat	215
24.	Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and Dvid Loy's "Beyond Mindfulness" (2013) David L. McMahan	221
CROSSING BOUNDARIES
25.	Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha's The Mantrayana of Rarh (1979) Projit Bihari Mukharji	231
26.	Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China Thomas David DuBois	235
27.	Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer Kin Cheung and C. Pierce Salguero	241
28.	"We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods": Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman Minjung Noh and C. Pierce Salguero	252
29.	Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters: Avalokitesvara Joins the New Age Pantheon C. Pierce Salguero	264
BUDDHIST HEALING IN PRACTICE
30.	Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional medicine: An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer Assunta Hunter	275
31.	Burmese Alchemy in Practice: Master U Shein's Healing Practice Celine Coderey	281
32.	Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Seinlay P. Trogawa Susannah Deane	289
33.	Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan: With a Translation of His "Edible Letters" Mona Schrempf	298
34.	Japanese Buddhist Women's "Way of Healing" Paula K. R. Arai	310
35.	Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia C. Pierce Salguero	317
Appendix: Geographical Table of Contents		327
Glossary		331
References		341
List of Contributors		373
Index		379