Early Tantric Medicine
Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras
Seiten
2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-046181-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-046181-2 (ISBN)
Early Tantric Medicine explores the mantra-based systems for healing snakebite found in the ancient Hindu texts called the Garuda Tantras. It engages with broader questions of medical efficacy, and describes a worldview in which powerful gods and goddesses are available to anyone who learns the secret methods of propitiating them.
Early Tantric Medicine looks at a traditional medical system that flourished over 1,000 years ago in India. The Garuda Tantras had a powerful influence on traditional medicine for snakebite, and some of their practices remain popular to this day. Snakebite may sound like a rare and exotic phenomenon, but in India it is a problem that affects 1.4 million people every year and results in over 45,000 deaths. Michael Slouber offers a close examination of the Garuda Tantras, which were deemed lost until the author himself discovered numerous ancient titles surviving in Sanskrit manuscripts written on fragile palm-leaves. The volume brings to life this rich tradition in which knowledge and faith are harnessed in complex visualizations accompanied by secret mantras to an array of gods and goddesses; this religious system is combined with herbal medicine and a fascinating mix of lore on snakes, astrology, and healing. The book's appendices include an accurate, yet readable translation of ten chapters of the most significant Tantric medical text to be recovered: the Kriyakalagunottara. Also included is a critical edition based on the surviving Nepalese manuscripts.
Early Tantric Medicine looks at a traditional medical system that flourished over 1,000 years ago in India. The Garuda Tantras had a powerful influence on traditional medicine for snakebite, and some of their practices remain popular to this day. Snakebite may sound like a rare and exotic phenomenon, but in India it is a problem that affects 1.4 million people every year and results in over 45,000 deaths. Michael Slouber offers a close examination of the Garuda Tantras, which were deemed lost until the author himself discovered numerous ancient titles surviving in Sanskrit manuscripts written on fragile palm-leaves. The volume brings to life this rich tradition in which knowledge and faith are harnessed in complex visualizations accompanied by secret mantras to an array of gods and goddesses; this religious system is combined with herbal medicine and a fascinating mix of lore on snakes, astrology, and healing. The book's appendices include an accurate, yet readable translation of ten chapters of the most significant Tantric medical text to be recovered: the Kriyakalagunottara. Also included is a critical edition based on the surviving Nepalese manuscripts.
Michael Slouber is Assistant Professor of South Asia in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University.
Foreword
Preface
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Precursors to Garudam
Chapter 3: Canon and Compendia
Chapter 4: The Vipati Mantra
Chapter 5: Nilakantha, et al.
Chapter 6: Snakebite Goddesses
Chapter 7: Impact
Chapter 8: Conclusions and Prospective
Appendices
A: Prologue to the Translation and Edition
B Translation of the Kriyakalagunottara: The Garudam Chapters
C Edition of Kriyakalagunottara: The Garudam Chapters
Notes
Register of Shortened Internet Links
Title List of Indic Primary Sources
General Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 157 mm |
| Gewicht | 703 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-046181-0 / 0190461810 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-046181-2 / 9780190461812 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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