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Monthly Archives: May 2012

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Sutra as Power Play

May 10, 2012 by William Eaton

Sutra as Power Play By William Eaton A review of The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript translated by Philip B. Yampolsky and Readings of the Platform Sutra, edited by Morten Schlutter and Stephen F. Teiser (both from Columbia University Press, 2012) {click for pdf} As a result of the Platform Sutra, Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch (638-713 CE), has come to be regarded as one the founders of the school of Chinese Chan Buddhism, […]

Categories: Review • Tags: class warfare, sutra, Zen

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Image from The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, by Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes and Emma Shackleton (The University of Chicago Press, 2012); images used courtesy of the Wellcome Trust

Medicine and Art

May 2, 2012 by sjzeteo2015

Surface and Depth, Medicine and Art By Stuart Johnson A review of The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, by Julie Anderson, Emma Barnes, and Emma Shackleton (The University of Chicago Press, 2012) The title of this volume signals a useful ambiguity. Medicine is a science, or a scientific practice, but it is also an art in the sense that the application of scientific medical principles to individual cases requires judgment and imagination. In that […]

Categories: Review • Tags: art, medicine, the body

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