This week, our series on 'Global Histories of Health, Medicine & Disease in the Early Modern World’ continues with Prof. Janet Gyatso, who speaks about her book, ‘Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet’. https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/2020/08/28/janet-gyatso/

Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Harvard Divinity School @HarvardDivinity @Harvard. Her book, 'Being Human in a Buddhist World', was published by Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP in 2016.

In her own words, Professor Gyatso “is a specialist in Buddhist studies with [a] concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history.” She is the author of 'Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary' (Princeton UP, 1998).

Professor Gyatso is also the editor of 'In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism' (SUNY Press, 1992) and 'Women in Tibet: Past and Present' (Columbia University Press, 2006).

This past June, @classic_chase spoke with Prof Gyatso about her book, ‘Being Human in a Buddhist World’, discussing topics including the entanglement of Buddhism and medicine in early modern Tibet, the cross-cultural influences of diverse medical traditions on Tibetan medicine...

...and the importance of adopting a non-Eurocentric perspective when studying ways of knowing, debating, and gathering information about the human body and the natural world. Click on the link at the top of this thread to listen to the interview.