Reaching the End of the World: An Anthropological Reading of Early Buddhist Medicine and Ascetic Practices

Autor:	Federico Divino
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Buddhist medicine medical anthropology meditation and medicine anthropology of consciousness Ernesto De Martino Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790
Zdroj:	Religions, Vol 14, Iss 2, p 249 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2077-1444
DOI:	10.3390/rel14020249
Popis:	This article aims to analyze the ideas of health and illness in ancient Buddhism, making use of the theoretical tools of medical anthropology and historical–philological inquiry. As a contribution to the conceptual history of medicine in Buddhism, I intend to focus the present investigation on the ascetic problem of the “end of the world” as a means of achieving complete healing. The asceticism of early Buddhism reconciles the goal of transcendence with that of healing, carrying out a complex reflection on awareness and presence.
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