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Re-visiting ‘Galen in Tibet’(1)

This paper readdresses the assertion found in much secondary literature that Greek medicine was adopted in Tibet in the seventh and eighth centuries. I discuss some of the traces of Galenic medical knowledge in early Tibetan medicine, and raise the question of why Tibetan medical histories who menti...

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Autor principal: Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23002304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2012.21
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Sumario:This paper readdresses the assertion found in much secondary literature that Greek medicine was adopted in Tibet in the seventh and eighth centuries. I discuss some of the traces of Galenic medical knowledge in early Tibetan medicine, and raise the question of why Tibetan medical histories who mention Galen give Galenic medicine a much more significant place than is evidenced in the Tibetan medical literature itself. I discuss some historiographical considerations and argue that the centrality given to Galenic medicine is more indicative of the period in which these sources are written than of the period which they presumably describe.