Bibliography of Buddhist Medicine

 

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The following list is not comprehensive, but includes only the scholarship on Buddhism and medicine most relevant to my own historical research. Last updated: December 20, 2011.

 

Western Languages

  1. 1.Ahn, Juhn Young. 2007. "Malady of Meditation: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Illness and Zen." Ph.D. Diss., University of California, Berkeley.

  2. 2.Bagchi, Prabodh Chandra. 1941. Indian Culture. Calcutta: Indian Research Institute.

  3. 3.Baker, Don. 1994. "Monks, Medicine, and Miracles: Health and Healing in the History of Korean Buddhism." Korean Studies 18: 50–75.

  4. 4.Beckwith, Christopher. 1979. "The Introduction of Greek Medicine Into Tibet in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries." Journal of the American Oriental Society 99 (2): 297-313.

  5. 5.Birnbaum, Raoul. 1989a [1979]. The Healing Buddha. Boulder, Colo.: Shambhala.

  6. 6.———. 1989b. "Chinese Buddhist Traditions of Healing and the Life Cycle." In Lawrence E. Sullivan (ed.), Healing and Restoring: Health and Medicine in the World’s Religious Traditions, pp. 33–58. London: Macmillan.

  7. 7.Boisvert, Mathieu. 2000. "Conception and Intrauterine Life in the Pāli Canon." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 29 (3): 301–11.

  8. 8.Bonardel, Françoise. 2006. "Bouddhisme et Thérapeutique." Les cahiers bouddhiques 4: 67-90.

  9. 9.Chen Ming 陳明 2007, "The Transmission of Foreign Medicine Via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A Case Study of the Haiyao Bencao 海药本草," Asian Medicine 3 (2): 241-64.

  10. 10.Chen Yunü. 2008. "Buddhism and the Medical Treatment of Women in the Ming Dynasty: A Research Note." Nan Nü 10: 279–304.

  11. 11.Dash, Vaidya Bhagwan. 1985 [1976]. Tibetan Medicine: With Special Reference to Yoga Śataka. Daramsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.

  12. 12.Demiéville, Paul. 1985 [1937]. Buddhism and Healing: Demiéville’s Article ‘Byō’ From Hōbōgirin. (Mark Tatz, Trans.) Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

  13. 13.Deshpande, Vijaya. 1999. "Indian Influences on Early Chinese Ophthalmology: Glaucoma as a Case Study." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 62 (2): 306–22.

  14. 14.———. 2000. "Ophthalmic Surgery: A Chapter in the History of Sino-Indian Medical Contacts." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 63 (3): 370–88.

  15. 15.———. 2003–04. "Nāgārjuna and Chinese Medicine." Studia Asiatica 4–5: 241–57.

  16. 16.———. 2008. "Glimpses of Āyurveda in Medieval Chinese Medicine," Indian Journal of History of Science 43 (2): 137-61.

  17. 17.Emmerick, R E. 1982. The Siddhasāra of Ravigupta. Wiesbaden: Steiner.

  18. 18.———. 2004 [1996]. The Sūtra of Golden Light (Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra), Third Edition. Oxford: Pali Text Society.

  19. 19.Fenner, Edward Todd. "Rasayana Siddhi: Medicine and Alchemy in the Buddhist Tantras." Ph.D. Diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

  20. 20.Fields, Gregory P. 2001. Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Āyurveda, and Tantra. Albany: SUNY Press.

  21. 21.Filliozat, Jean 1934, "La médicine Indienne et l'expansion bouddhique en extrême-orient," Journal Asiatique 224: 301-7.

  22. 22.Garrett, Frances. 2007. "Critical Methods in Tibetan Medical Histories." The Journal of Asian Studies 66(2): 363–87.

  23. 23.———. 2008. Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet. Abingdon, Oxon, and New York: Routledge.

  24. 24.———. 2009. "Tibetan Buddhist Narratives of the Forces of Creation." In Jane Marie Law and Vanessa R. Sasson (ed.), Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, pp. 107–20. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

  25. 25.Gosling, David. 1985. "Thailand’s Bare-Headed Doctors." Modern Asian Studies 19 (4): 761-96.

  26. 26.Haidar, Mansura. 2008. "Medical Works of the Medieval Period From India and Central Asia." Diogenes 218: 27-43.

  27. 27.Haldar, J. R. 1977. Medical Science in Pali Literature. Calcutta: Indian Museum.

  28. 28.———. 1992. Development of Public Health in Buddhism. Varanasi: Indological Book House.

  29. 29.Huebotter, Franz. 1932. Die Sutra über Empfängnis und Embryologie. Tokyo: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens.

  30. 30.Huges, James J., and Keown, Damien. 1995. "Buddhism and Medical Ethics: A Bibliographic Introduction." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 2: 105-24.

  31. 31.Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo. 1989. "Buddhist Medical History." In Lawrence E. Sullivan (ed.), Healing and Restoring: Health and Medicine in the World’s Religious Traditions, pp. 9–32. New York and London: Macmillan.

  32. 32.Kritzer, Robert. 2006-07. "The names of winds in the various versions of the Garbhāvakrāntisūtra." Bulletin d'etudes indiennes 24-25:139–53.

  33. 33.———. 2009. "Life in the Womb: Conception and Gestation in Buddhist Scripture and Classical Indian Medical Literature." In Vanessa R. Sasson and Jane Marie Law (ed.), Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, pp. 73–89. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

  34. 34.Li Rongxi. 2000. Buddhist Monastic Traditions of Southern Asia: A Record of the Inner Law Sent Home From the South Seas. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, Chps. 4–8, 20, 23, 27–29.

  35. 35.Liyanaratne, Jinadasa. 1995-96. "Buddhism and Traditional Medicine in Sri Lanka." Pacific World, NS 11-12: 124–42.

  36. 36.———. 1999. Buddhism and Traditional Medicine in Sri Lanka. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka: University of Kelaniya.

  37. 37.———. 2002. The Casket of Medicine (Bhesajjamañjūsā, Chapters 1-18). Oxford: Pali Text Society.

  38. 38.Lo, Vivienne, and Christopher Cullen (eds.). 2005. Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.

  39. 39.Mazars, Sylvain.  2008. Le bouddhisme et la medecine traditionelle de l'Inde. Paris: Springer.

  40. 40.Mitra, Jyotir. 1974. History of Indian Medicine From Pre-Mauryan to Kusānā Period. Varanasi: Jyotirālok Prakashan.

  41. 41.———. 1985. A Critical Appraisal of Ayurvedic Material in Buddhist Literature with Special Reference to Tripitaka. Varanasi: Jyotiralok Prakashan.

  42. 42.Salguero, C. Pierce. 2009. "The Buddhist Medicine King in Literary Context: Reconsidering an early example of Indian influence on Chinese medicine and surgery." History of Religions 48 (3): 183-210.

  43. 43.———. 2010. "'A Flock of Ghosts Bursting Forth and Scattering': Healing Narratives in a Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Hagiography." East Asian Science Technology & Medicine (EASTM) 32: 89–120.

  44. 44.———. 2011. "Mixing Metaphors: Translating the Indian Medical Doctrine Tridoṣa in Chinese Buddhist Sources." Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 6: 55–74.

  45. 45.Sen, Satiranjan. 1945. "Two Medical Texts in Chinese Translation." Visva-Bharati Annals 1: 70–95.

  46. 46.Sengupta, Sukumar. 1989. "Medical Data in the Milindapañha." In Dr. B.N. Narua Birth Centenary Commemoration Volume, pp. 111-17. Calcutta: Bengal Buddhist Association.

  47. 47.Sharma, Arvind. 1989. "The Relationship Between Disease and Karma in the Milindapañha." In N.H. Samtani (ed.), Amala Prajña: Aspects of Buddhist Studies, Professor P.V. Bapat Felicitation, pp. 139-49. Delhi: Sri Satgun Publications.

  48. 48.Skorupski, Tadeusz. 1999. "Health and Suffering in Buddhism: Doctrinal and Existential Considerations." In John R. Hinnells and Roy Porter (eds.), Religion, Health and Suffering, pp. 139-65. London and New York: Kegan Paul International.

  49. 49.Stablein, William George. 1976. "The Mahākālatantra: A Theory of Ritual Blessings and Tantric Medicine." Ph.D. Diss. Columbia University.

  50. 50.Strickmann, Michel. 1990. "The Consecration Sutra: A Buddhist Book of Spells." In Robert E. Jr. Buswell (ed.), Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, pp. 75-118. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

  51. 51.———. 2002. Chinese Magical Medicine. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

  52. 52.Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff). 2001. The Buddhist Monastic Code II: The Khandaka Training Rules Translated and Explained, 2nd Ed. Valley Center, CA: Metta Forest Monestary. [See Chapter 5]

  53. 53.Unschuld, Paul U. 1979. "The Chinese Reception of Indian Medicine in the First Millennium A.D." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 53 (3): 329-45.

  54. 54.Unschuld, Paul U. 1985. Medicine in China: A History of Ideas. Berkeley: University of California Press. [See Chapter 6 and Appendix, 6.1-6.2]

  55. 55.Wallace, Vesna 1995-96, "Buddhist Tantric Medicine in the Kālacakratantra," Pacific World NS 11-12: 155-74.

  56. 56.Walter, Michael Lee. 1980. "The Role of Alchemy and Medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism." Ph.D. Diss., Indiana University.

  57. 57.Wang, Shumin. 2005. "Abstracts of the medical manuscripts from Dunhuang." In Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen (eds.) Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.

  58. 58.Williams, Duncan Ryūken 2005, "The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen: Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan," Princeton: Princeton University Press. [See Chapter 5 and Appendix B]

  59. 59.Wu, Yi-Li. 2000. "The Bamboo Grove Monastery and Popular Gynecology in Qing China." Late Imperial China 21 (1): 41-76.

  60. 60.Yoshinobu, Sakade 坂出祥伸. 1998. "Sun Simiao et le Bouddhisme." Kansai daigaku bunka ronshū 関西大学文化論集 42 (1): 81-98.

  61. 61.Zwiling, Leonard. 1980. "On Bhaisajyaguru and his Cult." In Studies in the History of Buddhism: Papers Presented at the International Conference on the History of Buddhism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, pp. 413-21. Delhi: B.R. Publishing.

  62. 62.Zysk, Kenneth G. 1982. "Studies in Traditional Indian Medicine in the Pāli Canon: Jīvaka and Āyurveda." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 5 (1): 70-86.

  63. 63.———. 1995-96, "New Approaches to the Study of Early Buddhist Medicine: Use of Technical Brahmanic Sources in Sanskrit for the Interpretation of Pali Medical Texts," Pacific World NS 11-12: 143-54.

  64. 64.———. 1998 [1991]. Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

 

Eastern Languages

  1. 1.Cao Shibang [or Tso Sze-bong] 曹仕邦. 1980. “Sifen lü zhong youguan yiliao de ziliao 四分律中有關醫療的資料." Nanyang fojiao 南洋佛教 139: 11–14.

  2. 2.———. 1994. “Zhongguo shamen de yiyao zhishi jiqi chengjiu 中國沙門的醫藥智識及其成就 (The Chinese Sangha’s Medical Knowledge and Its Contributions)." In Tso Sze-bong 曹仕邦 (ed.), Zhongguo shamen waixue de yanjiu: Hanmo zhi wudai 中國沙門外學的研究: 漢末至五代 (Research on the Chinese Sangha’s Extracanonical Studies: The End of the Han to the Five Dynasties), pp. 387–405. Taipei: Dongchu 東初.

  3. 3.Chen Ming 陳明. 2002. Yindu fanwen yidian ‘Yili jinghua’ yanjiu 印度梵文醫典《醫理精華》研究(Research on the Indian Sanskrit Medical Classic Siddhasāra). Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中华书局.

  4. 4.———. 2005a. Dunhuang chutu huhua qipo shu yanjiu 敦煌出土胡話《耆婆書》研究 (English title: A Study on Sanskrit Text of Jīvaka-Pustaka from Dunhuang). Hong Kong: Xinwen feng chuban gongsi.

  5. 5.———. 2005b. “Zhuan nü wei nan: Turning Female to Male, an Indian Influence on Chinese Gynaecology?" Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 1(2): 315–34.

  6. 6.———. 2005c. Shufang yiyao: Chutu wenshu yu xiyu yixue 殊方異藥：出土文書與西域醫學 (English title: Foreign Medicine in Medieval China: Medical Manuscripts Discovered in Dunhuang and Western Regions). Beijing: Peking University Press.

  7. 7.———. 2006. “Hanyi mijiao wenxian zhong de shengmingfeituo chengfen bianxi — yi tongzi fang he yanyao fang weili 漢譯密教文獻中的生命吠陀成分辨析—以童子方和眼藥方為例 (Ayurvedic Knowledge in Chinese Tantric Texts: The Cases of Children's Prescriptions and Eye Medicines)." Gujin Lunheng 古今論衡14: 27–46.

  8. 8.———. 2007. “The Transmission of Foreign Medicine Via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A Case Study of the Haiyao Bencao 海药本草." Asian Medicine 3(2): 241–64

  9. 9.Cong Chunyu 丛春雨. 1994. Dunhuang zhongyiyao quanshu 敦煌中医药全书 (The Complete Book of Chinese Medicine at Dunhuang). Beijing: Zhongguo guji chubanshe 中国古籍出版社.

  10. 10.Fu Fang 傅芳 and Ni Qing 倪靑 (eds.). 1996. Zhongguo Foyi Renwu Xiaozhuan 中囯佛医人物小传 (Short Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Medical Personages). Xiamen: Lujiang chubanshe 鹭江出版社.

  11. 11.Fukunaga Katsumi 福永勝美. 1972. Bukkyō igaku shōsetsu 佛教醫學詳說 (A Comprehensive Explanation of Buddhist Medicine). Tokyo: Yūzankaku.

  12. 12.———. 1990. Bukkyō igaku jiten 仏教医学事典 (Encyclopedia of Buddhist Medicine). Tokyo: Yūzankaku.

  13. 13.Geng Liutong 耿劉同 and Geng Yinxun 耿引循. 1993. Foxue yu zhongyixue 佛学与中医学 (Buddhism and Chinese Medicine). Fuzhou: Fujian kexue jishu chubanshe 福建科学技朮出版社.

  14. 14.Hoernle, A F Rudolf. 1987. The Bower Manuscript. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

  15. 15.Huang Poyuan 黃柏源. 2000. “Zhiyi yixue sixiang zhi yanjiu, yi Mohe zhiguan ‘Guanbing huanjing’ wei zhongxin 智顗醫學思想之研究—以《摩訶止觀》「觀病患境」為中心 (English Title: A Study on Zhiyi's thought of Medical Science—Focus on ‘Contemplation in a State of Illness’ of Mo-Ho-Chih-Kuan)." M.A. Thesis, Hua-fan daxue 華梵大學.

  16. 16.Li Yingcun 李應存 and Shi Zhenggang 史正刚. 2006. Dunhuang fo-ru-dao xiangguan yishu shiyao 敦煌佛儒道相关医书释要(Precis of the Interrelations Between Dunhuang Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist Medical Documents). Beijing: Minzhu chubanshe 民族出版社.

  17. 17.Liu Shufen 劉淑芬. 2008. "Tangsong shiqi sengren, guojia he yiliao de guanxi: cong yaofang dong dao huimin ju 唐、宋時期僧人、國家和醫療的關係：從藥方洞到惠民局 (Connections between the sangha, state, and medicine in the Tang-Song era: From the Medical Prescriptions Cave to the Office of Public Welfare)." In Cong yiliao kan zhongguo shi 從醫療看中國史 (Chinese History from the Perspective of Medicine). Li Jianmin 李建民 (ed.). Taipei: Lianjing chuban gongsi 聯經出版公司.

  18. 18.Ma Boying 马伯英, Gao Xi 高唏, and Hong Zhongli 洪中立. 1993. Zhong-wai yixue wenhua jiaoliu shi 中外医学文化交流史 (English Title: History of Medical Cultural Exchange Between China and Foreign Countries: Intercultural Dissemination of Traditional Chinese and Foreign Medicines). Shanghai: Wen hui chubanshe 文匯出版社.

  19. 19.Ma Zhonggeng 马忠庚. 2005. “Han-Tang fojiao yu kexue — jiyu fozang wenxian de yanjiu 汉唐佛教与科学 — 基于佛藏文献的研究 (Buddhism and Science From Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty: A Study Based on the Chinese Tripitaka)." Ph.D. Diss., Shandong University.

  20. 20.Michihata Ryoshu 道端良秀. 1965. "Chugoku Ni Okeru Bukkyō Igaku 中国における仏教医学 (Buddhism in Chinese Medicine)." Sukkyo kenkyu 宗教研究39 (2): 47-69.

  21. 21.Nihonyanagi Kenji 二本柳賢司. 1995. Bukkyō Igaku Gaiyō 佛教醫學概要 (An Outline of Buddhist Medicine). Kyoto: Hozokan.

  22. 22.Obinata Daijō 大日方大乗. 1962. Bukkyō eisei gaku 仏教衛生学 (A Study of Buddhist Hygiene). Tokyo: Sanko.

  23. 23.———. 1965. Bukkyō Igaku No Kenkyū 仏教医学の硏究 (A Study of Buddhism and Medicine). Tokyo: Kazama Shobō, 風間書房.

  24. 24.Tu Zhimao 涂志懋. 2001. “Fojiao yifangming de yinshi yaowu liaofa 佛教醫方明的飲食藥物療法 (Buddhist Medicine’s Dietary and Medicinal Therapeutics)." Ph.D. Diss., Faguang fojiao wenhua yanjiusuo 法光佛教文化研究所.

  25. 25.Wang Xiaoxian 王孝先. 1994. Sichouzilu yiyaoxue jiaoliu yanjiu 丝绸之路医药学交流硏究(A Study of Silk Road Medical Exchange). Urumqi: Xinjiang renmin chubanshe 新疆人民出版社.

  26. 26.Xue Gongchen 薛公忱. 2002. Ru dao fo yu zhongyiyao xue 儒道佛与中医药学 (A Study of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Chinese Medicine). Beijing: Zhongguo shudian 中国书店.