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Tibetan Medical Debates in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Religion, Science, and Modernity
Harvard University
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Outreach Lecture
Tibetan Medical Debates in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries:
Questions about Religion, Science, and Modernity
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School
This talk will examine some of the disputes about the nature of truth and authority that developed between medical writers and Buddhist writers in Tibet during the 16th to 18th centuries. The issue centers on the status of empirical data and its status vis-a-vis religious doctrine. Disparate anatomies developed in Tibetan medical and Indic tantric systems even while there was a close ideological and institutional relationship between Buddhism and medicine in Tibet. The talk has as its larger horizon some of the debates about the development of "modernity" outside of the west.
Date: 03/13/2004
Location: Science Center, Hall C.
Time: 3:00 pm
Organized By: Harvard University Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Contact: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, 617-495-3295 Dr Bijoy Misra, 617-864-5121
Web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit/outreach.html
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