Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet by Janet Gyatso (review)
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Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), pp. 544, £45.95/£24.95, hardback/paperback/ebook, ISBN: 978-0-231-16496-2 / 978-0-231-16497-9 / 978-0231-53832-9.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017