Book Review

摘要

C. Pierce Salguero’s edited volume is an impressive collection of texts related to Buddhism and medicine that are scattered throughout the Buddhist canon, and beyond. The texts have been translated from South, Southeast and East Asia languages that include Pāli, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese and Korean, as well from Burmese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Mongolian, and represent complete texts or substantial extracts, the majority hitherto not available in English or other European languages. In 689 pages it contains sixty-two chapters, arranged in themed sections on the subject of Buddhism and healing, cutting across these linguistic fields.