Sino-Buddhist Medicine: A Missing Link in the Global History of

Sino-Buddhist Medicine: A Missing Link in the Global History of Medicine

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C. Pierce Salguero, associate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Penn State Abington, provides an introduction to the principles of Sino-Buddhist medicine, the product of centuries of cross-cultural exchange between medieval India and China.

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