A medieval Daoist drug geography: the Jinye Shendan Jing as a novel view on the circulation of medical knowledge in Asia
This article studies the Taiqing jinye shendan jing 太清金液神丹經 (Grand Clarity Scripture of Divine Elixir Made from Liquid Gold, hereafter Scripture of Liquid Gold), attributed to Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343 CE), to examine the intersection of religion, science and medicine in China. Passages from the Scripture...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1710612023-10-14T16:55:43Z A medieval Daoist drug geography: the Jinye Shendan Jing as a novel view on the circulation of medical knowledge in Asia Stanley-Baker, Michael Pettit, J. E. E. Yang, Dolly School of Humanities Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Humanities::Religions Humanities::History Alchemy Travelogue This article studies the Taiqing jinye shendan jing 太清金液神丹經 (Grand Clarity Scripture of Divine Elixir Made from Liquid Gold, hereafter Scripture of Liquid Gold), attributed to Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343 CE), to examine the intersection of religion, science and medicine in China. Passages from the Scripture of Liquid Gold describe the healing powers of drugs and highlight ways medieval writers imagined the transmission of medical knowledge, as well as the specific places producing potent substances. The text provides a view that contravenes standard narratives of foreign medical migration that vector into China via Buddhist channels. As such, we argue that it provides a novel view of medical migration in its time period. As one of the early sources on physical geography and trade goods from Southeast Asia, it is an important resource for early knowledge of the region and is one of the earliest examples of possible Daoist religio-technical continuities between the regions. Published version This research received external funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. 2023-10-11T01:20:28Z 2023-10-11T01:20:28Z 2023 Journal Article Stanley-Baker, M., Pettit, J. E. E. & Yang, D. (2023). A medieval Daoist drug geography: the Jinye Shendan Jing as a novel view on the circulation of medical knowledge in Asia. Religions, 14(7), 835-. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14070835 2077-1444 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171061 10.3390/rel14070835 2-s2.0-85166355796 7 14 835 en Religions © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). application/pdf |
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This article studies the Taiqing jinye shendan jing 太清金液神丹經 (Grand Clarity Scripture of Divine Elixir Made from Liquid Gold, hereafter Scripture of Liquid Gold), attributed to Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343 CE), to examine the intersection of religion, science and medicine in China. Passages from the Scripture of Liquid Gold describe the healing powers of drugs and highlight ways medieval writers imagined the transmission of medical knowledge, as well as the specific places producing potent substances. The text provides a view that contravenes standard narratives of foreign medical migration that vector into China via Buddhist channels. As such, we argue that it provides a novel view of medical migration in its time period. As one of the early sources on physical geography and trade goods from Southeast Asia, it is an important resource for early knowledge of the region and is one of the earliest examples of possible Daoist religio-technical continuities between the regions. |
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