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| Was Tobacco Described in Bhutanese Buddhist Texts before the 16th Century? | ||
| 作者 | Givel, Michael S. (著) ; Sherry, Rebecca A. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Bhutan Studies |
| 卷期 | v.29 Winter |
| 出版日期 | 2013 |
| 頁次 | 67 - 85 |
| 出版者 | The Centre for Bhutan Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/ |
| 出版地 | Thimphu, Bhutan [廷布, 不丹] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Authors' Affiliations: Michael S. Givel: Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma. Rebecca A. Sherry: Ph.D., Cherokee Services Group, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO. |
| 摘要 | The small Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has banned tobacco sales since 2004, citing prophets of the country's state religion, Mahayana Buddhism, who described the evils of tobacco 200 years before its introduction to Asia. To address whether tobacco really is the plant designated in these early texts, we commissioned new translations of these documents, including one of the first translations out of Choekey of the first legal code of Bhutan, known as “The Golden Yoke ofLegal Edicts.” A set of allegorical stories predict that a demon will make a plant appear that will be smoked, sniffed or eaten, and will cause a myriad of physical and societal ills. The stories in the ancient documents are allegorical and apocryphal (in the sense of mystic and esoteric) and do not describe the plant in enough detail to identify it as any real plant. In some cases, the word “thamakha,” meaning “the very worst black poison,” was transliterated as tobacco. Nevertheless, modern day interpretations in Bhutan of “thamakha” as tobacco are congruent with Buddhist tenets that intoxicants of any type will cloud the mind and inhibit the journey to seek Nirvana. |
| 目次 | Abstract 67 Introduction 67 Materials and Methods 70 Results 71 Tobacco in Asia 74 Discussion 78 References 80 |
| ISSN | 1608411X (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.10.27 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.10.27 |
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