The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India

by Anthony Michael Cerulli

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The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India's classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520383540
• ISBN13: 9780520383548
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"