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Illness and Enlightenment

Exploring Tibetan Perspectives on Madness in Text and Everyday Life

Susannah Deane

288 pages, 10 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-840-0 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (February 2025)

eISBN 978-1-80539-841-7 eBook Not Yet Published


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“The book takes up an interesting, important, complicated and somewhat understudied aspect of Tibetan cultural and religious life.” • David DiValerio, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Tibetan understandings of nyoné — ‘madness’— encompass a broad range of concepts. Perspectives on the causation and treatment of madness as an illness are informed by Tantric and medical understandings of mind-body structure and (dys)functioning, as well as people’s relationships with non-human entities. In addition, ‘madness’ may be seen as a sign of enlightenment in the case of some Tantric practitioners. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, as well as examination of Tibetan medical and religious texts, Illness and Enlightenment explores the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships.

Susannah Deane is Bid Developer & Writer of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England. She is the author of Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental Health and Healing in a Tibetan Exile Community and co-editor of Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Subject: Medical AnthropologyAnthropology of Religion
Area: Asia


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