Chinese Magical Medicine.
Strickmann, Michel.
Chinese Magical Medicine. /Michel Strickmann. - , California : Stanford University Press , 2002. - xii, 418p. : 24cm.
This work argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck.
Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
Buddhism
Chinese culture
Disease
610.95 STR
Chinese Magical Medicine. /Michel Strickmann. - , California : Stanford University Press , 2002. - xii, 418p. : 24cm.
This work argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck.
Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
Buddhism
Chinese culture
Disease
610.95 STR