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    Early Tantric Medicine

Early Tantric Medicine

Michael Slouber
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      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 theGaruda 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 toan 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Slouber EAN: 9780190461812 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 660 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-12-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, MEDICAL / History, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      India, History of medicine, Hinduism, Mysticism

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      Michael Slouber is Assistant Professor of South Asia in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University.
      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 theGaruda 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 toan 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Slouber EAN: 9780190461812 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 660 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-12-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, MEDICAL / History, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      India, History of medicine, Hinduism, Mysticism

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      Michael Slouber is Assistant Professor of South Asia in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University.

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