Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of by Janet Gyatso

By Janet Gyatso

Seriously exploring scientific notion in a cultural milieu with out discernible effect from the ecu Enlightenment, Being Human finds an another way omitted intersection of early sleek sensibilities and non secular values in conventional Tibetan drugs. It additional reviews the variation of Buddhist recommendations and values to scientific issues and indicates vital dimensions of Buddhism's function within the improvement of Asian and international civilization.

Through its detailed concentration and complicated analyzing of resource fabrics, Being Human provides a very important bankruptcy within the better historiography of technology and faith. The publication opens with the daring achievements in Tibetan clinical representation, statement, and establishment construction in the course of the interval of the 5th Dalai Lama and his regent, Desi Sangye Gyatso, then appears to be like again to the paintings of prior thinkers, tracing a strategically astute dialectic among scriptural and empirical authority on questions of background and the character of human anatomy. It follows key variations among medication and Buddhism in attitudes towards gender and intercourse and the ethical personality of the health practitioner, who needed to serve either the patient's and the practitioner's health and wellbeing. Being Human finally unearths that Tibetan scientific students absorbed moral and epistemological different types from Buddhism but shied clear of excellent structures and absolutes, as an alternative embracing the imperfectability of the human .

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