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Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras

Autor Michael Slouber
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 dec 2016
Early Tantric Medicine looks at a traditional medical system that flourished over 1,000 years ago in India. The Garuda Tantras had a powerful influence on traditional medicine for snakebite, and some of their practices remain popular to this day. Snakebite may sound like a rare and exotic phenomenon, but in India it is a problem that affects 1.4 million people every year and results in over 45,000 deaths. Michael Slouber offers a close examination of the Garuda Tantras, which were deemed lost until the author himself discovered numerous ancient titles surviving in Sanskrit manuscripts written on fragile palm-leaves. The volume brings to life this rich tradition in which knowledge and faith are harnessed in complex visualizations accompanied by secret mantras to an array of gods and goddesses; this religious system is combined with herbal medicine and a fascinating mix of lore on snakes, astrology, and healing. The book's appendices include an accurate, yet readable translation of ten chapters of the most significant Tantric medical text to be recovered: the Kriyakalagunottara. Also included is a critical edition based on the surviving Nepalese manuscripts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190461812
ISBN-10: 0190461810
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 236 x 157 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Slouber's monograph makes a strong contribution to the recent movement in scholarship on Asian medicine away from anachronistic distinctions between the magical and the medical or the religious and the rational. He does the hard work of reading across genre, time, and tradition to present a complex and nuanced picture of the Gāruḍa Tantras for future scholars in a range of disciplines to build upon.
By reassessing so many fertile areas and posing so many new questions (not to mention furnishing an eminently readable translation of the Kriyākālaguṇotarra), Michael Slouber has initiated a career's (or more likely careers') worth of investigation.

Notă biografică

Michael Slouber is Assistant Professor of South Asia in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University.