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In the Forest of the Blind
The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms MATTHEW W. KING “Innovative and fascinating.” —Vesna Wallace, author of The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual
The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Faxian’s journey to Buddhist sites in Central and South Asia in search of sacred texts. Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the modern circulation, translation, and interpretation of this text from European academia to Inner Asian monasteries. MATTHEW W. KING
is associate professor in transnational
Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia, 2019).
A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine C. PIERCE SALGUERO
“A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine provides an overarching narrative for the burgeoning field of Buddhist medical studies. Salguero successfully synthesizes several millennia of intellectual developments that took place across diverse traditions and cultures into a single coherent narrative.” —William McGrath, Manhattan College
This book is a wide-ranging and accessible account of the interplay between Buddhism and medicine over the past two and a half millennia. C. Pierce Salguero traces the intertwining threads linking ideas, practices, and texts from many different times and places. This book will be informative and invaluable for scholars, students, and practitioners of both Buddhism and complementary and alternative medicine. C. PIERCE SALGUERO
is associate professor of Asian his-
tory and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington College. He is the editor of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (Columbia, 2017) and Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (Columbia, 2019), among other works.
$40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-20361-6 $160.00 / £132.00 cloth 978-0-231-20360-9 $39.99 / £34.00 e-book 978-0-231-55514-2
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18527-1 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-18526-4 $34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-54607-2
J A N U A R Y 288 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 15 b&w illustrations
N O V E M B E R 272 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 29 b&w illustrations
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All Rights: Columbia University Press
All Rights: Columbia University Press
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