1. Author Affiliation: University of Bergamo, Italy.
2. Religions 2023, 14(2), 249.
關鍵詞
Buddhist medicine; medical anthropology; meditation and medicine; anthropology of consciousness; Ernesto De Martino
摘要
This article aims to analyze the ideas of health and illness in ancient Buddhism, making use of the theoretical tools of medical anthropology and historical–philological inquiry. As a contribution to the conceptual history of medicine in Buddhism, I intend to focus the present investigation on the ascetic problem of the “end of the world” as a means of achieving complete healing. The asceticism of early Buddhism reconciles the goal of transcendence with that of healing, carrying out a complex reflection on awareness and presence.
目次
Abstract 1 Keywords 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Early Ascetic Medical Traditions 6 3. The Early Buddhist Medical System and Āyurveda 11 4. Healing, Transcending: Ascetics’ Cosmological Conceptions of Illness 14 5. Body, Visualized: Evolution of the Somatic Image 16 6. Conclusions: The Crisis and the Ascetic Healer 21 Notes 25 References 27 Primary Sources 27 Secondary Sources 29
