Reaching the End of the World: An Anthropological Reading of Early Buddhist Medicine and Ascetic Practices-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Reaching the End of the World: An Anthropological Reading of Early Buddhist Medicine and Ascetic Practices

Published:2023-02-13 Issue:2 Volume:14 Page:249
ISSN:2077-1444
Container-title:Religions
language:en
Short-container-title:Religions

Author:

Divino Federico¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Departments of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy

2. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, M, Sint-Jacobstraat 2, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the ideas of health and illness in ancient Buddhism, making use of the theoretical tools of medical anthropology and historical–philological inquiry. As a contribution to the conceptual history of medicine in Buddhism, I intend to focus the present investigation on the ascetic problem of the “end of the world” as a means of achieving complete healing. The asceticism of early Buddhism reconciles the goal of transcendence with that of healing, carrying out a complex reflection on awareness and presence.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Religious studies

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/2/249/pdf

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