Healing and/or Salvation?: The Relationship Between Religion and Medicine in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
By C. Pierce Salguero
26 pagesWhereas the texts discussed in the first section generally argue for a stricter separation between these two domains, those in the second [Mahāyāna wave] strove to integrate medicine into the very heart of Buddhism.
On how the relief of medical suffering became central to Mahāyāna Buddhism.