Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery

by Kenneth G. Zysk

Book Overview

The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. Zysk shows that the Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059565
• ISBN13: 9780195059564
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"