Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease

Authors

Andrew Macomber, Oberlin College

Repository Citation

Macomber, Andrew. "Moxibustion for Demons: Oral Transmission on Corpse-Vector Disease." In Buddhism and Medicine in Predmodern Japan: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, edited by C. Pierce Salguero. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Publication Date

9-1-2017

Department

Religion

Document Type

Book Chapter

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.7312/salg17994

Notes

Chapter 51.

Keywords

Buddhist medicine, Karmic illness, Leprosy, Demons, Healing rituals, Epidemics, Materia medica, Master of Medicines Buddha, Yōsai, Zhiyi

ISBN

9780231179942

Language

English

Format

text