C. Pierce Salguero teaches Asian history at Penn State Abington and has written many books on Asian health and medical practices for general audiences.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Buddhist Medical TransmissionChapter 2. Translators and Translation PracticeChapter 3. Translating Medicine in Buddhist ScripturesChapter 4. Rewriting Buddhist MedicineChapter 5. Popularizing Buddhist MedicineConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesList of Chinese and Japanese CharactersReferencesIndexAcknowledgments

"C. Pierce Salguero skillfully uses religious studies, translation studies, and anthropology in his investigations. He provides a clear and nuanced account of the complex processes that brought Buddhist doctrines to China and enriched them with new ideas and practices. In the process he demonstrates that here, as elsewhere, 'knowledge about disease, healing, and the body is always inextricably interwoven with the social, economic, political, and personal histories of the people involved in its production and consumption." (Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania) "A welcome reframing of the transmission of Buddhist medicine to China. Salguero reimagines this process not as the clash of monoliths but as numerous specific acts of translation. He invites us to see how people made meaning within and between traditions, rather than contenting ourselves with enumerating the contents of traditions as if they were inert containers of ideas." (Robert Ford Campany, Vanderbilt University) "An excellent contribution which sets the stage for very important future work. Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China provides a detailed analytical perspective on a question of profound importance in the intellectual history of Asia." (Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh)

C. Pierce Salguero teaches Asian history at Penn State Abington and has written many books on Asian health and medical practices for general audiences.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Buddhist Medical TransmissionChapter 2. Translators and Translation PracticeChapter 3. Translating Medicine in Buddhist ScripturesChapter 4. Rewriting Buddhist MedicineChapter 5. Popularizing Buddhist MedicineConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesList of Chinese and Japanese CharactersReferencesIndexAcknowledgments

"C. Pierce Salguero skillfully uses religious studies, translation studies, and anthropology in his investigations. He provides a clear and nuanced account of the complex processes that brought Buddhist doctrines to China and enriched them with new ideas and practices. In the process he demonstrates that here, as elsewhere, 'knowledge about disease, healing, and the body is always inextricably interwoven with the social, economic, political, and personal histories of the people involved in its production and consumption." (Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania) "A welcome reframing of the transmission of Buddhist medicine to China. Salguero reimagines this process not as the clash of monoliths but as numerous specific acts of translation. He invites us to see how people made meaning within and between traditions, rather than contenting ourselves with enumerating the contents of traditions as if they were inert containers of ideas." (Robert Ford Campany, Vanderbilt University) "An excellent contribution which sets the stage for very important future work. Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China provides a detailed analytical perspective on a question of profound importance in the intellectual history of Asia." (Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh)

C. Pierce Salguero teaches Asian history at Penn State Abington and has written many books on Asian health and medical practices for general audiences.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Buddhist Medical TransmissionChapter 2. Translators and Translation PracticeChapter 3. Translating Medicine in Buddhist ScripturesChapter 4. Rewriting Buddhist MedicineChapter 5. Popularizing Buddhist MedicineConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesList of Chinese and Japanese CharactersReferencesIndexAcknowledgments

"C. Pierce Salguero skillfully uses religious studies, translation studies, and anthropology in his investigations. He provides a clear and nuanced account of the complex processes that brought Buddhist doctrines to China and enriched them with new ideas and practices. In the process he demonstrates that here, as elsewhere, 'knowledge about disease, healing, and the body is always inextricably interwoven with the social, economic, political, and personal histories of the people involved in its production and consumption." (Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania) "A welcome reframing of the transmission of Buddhist medicine to China. Salguero reimagines this process not as the clash of monoliths but as numerous specific acts of translation. He invites us to see how people made meaning within and between traditions, rather than contenting ourselves with enumerating the contents of traditions as if they were inert containers of ideas." (Robert Ford Campany, Vanderbilt University) "An excellent contribution which sets the stage for very important future work. Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China provides a detailed analytical perspective on a question of profound importance in the intellectual history of Asia." (Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh)