Dung, hair, and mungbeans: household remedies in the Longmen recipes

• Main Authors: Stanley-Baker, Michael, Yang, Dolly
• Other Authors: Salguero, Pierce C.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Columbia University Press 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Health; Chinese medicine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179417; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/salg17994/html#contents
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Critical Translation of over 150 recipes carved into the walls of a cave in Longmen Cave, near Loyang in the 7th century. These likely represent Buddhist transmitted recipes, and were certainly presented in a context of Buddhist merit-building monuments. Some identical recipes also appear in other r...