Janet Gyatso on Medicine, Buddhism, and the Body in Early Modern Tibet

The Global History Podcast

Aug 29, 202036:49Society & Culture

Janet Gyatso speaks about her book, 'Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet', discussing topics including the entanglement of Buddhism and medicine in Tibet, the cross-...

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