Revisiting ‘Galen in Tibet’Medical HistorySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/SYQK96SK/tei
Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
2024-08-15-04:00
Born digital.
CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.RonitYoeli-TlalimRevisiting ‘Galen in Tibet’http://syriaca.org/cbss/SYQK96SKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/SYQK96SKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/SYQK96SKMedical History56:32012355-365This 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.
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit. “Revisiting ‘Galen in Tibet.’” Medical History 56:3 (2012): 355–65.
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Revisiting ‘Galen in Tibet,’Medical History 56:3 (2012): 355–65.GalenNestoriansSyriac influence [Central Asia]TibetVII-XVIII CEmedicine