Healing and / or Salvation?
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This paper surveys medieval Chinese Buddhist textual discourses on healing and salvation, arguing that the canon contains no single position but a spectrum from strict separation to full integration. Early vinaya/āgama materials treat medicine as worldly and largely off-limits for monastics, while Mahāyāna sūtras reframe healing as compassionate skillful means central to the bodhisattva path.
Key findings
- Early Buddhist disciplinary and āgama texts distinguish worldly from supramundane concerns and generally prohibit monastics from practicing medicine on the laity as a “deviant livelihood,” while still permitting mutual care within the saṅgha and praising lay physicians such as Jīvaka. The Dharmaguptaka Four Part Vinaya, translated into Chinese in 408–413, includes the Buddha nursing a sick monk and instructing monks to care for the sick.
- Mahāyāna literature reverses this emphasis by absorbing worldly medical knowledge into the path to buddhahood. The fifth-century Brahmā’s Net Sūtra makes healing the sick a requirement and calls it the highest field of merit; the Golden Light Sūtra’s Jalavāhana saves “incalculable hundreds of thousands of beings”; and the Flower Ornament Sūtra’s Samantanetra teaches medicine as part of a bodhisattva’s compassionate work.
- The paper concludes that Buddhist texts offer a complex spectrum rather than a rigid religion/medicine or religious/secular divide. Later Chinese exegetes such as Zhiyi (538–597), Daoxuan (596–667), and Daoshi (?–683) drew on these inherited models to create local syntheses, though those syntheses are not analyzed here.
Methods
- Conceptual and textual analysis of Buddhist canonical and related writings available in Chinese translation, focusing on the language, categories, and internal logics of the texts rather than institutions, social practices, authorship, reception, or implementation.
- The paper arranges positions synchronically and thematically as options on a spectrum, first surveying vinaya and āgama materials and then Mahāyāna sūtras and related narratives, including the Longer Āgama, Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, Golden Light Sūtra, Brahmā’s Net Sūtra, Flower Ornament Sūtra, and Dharmapāda.
- Sources are cited from the Taishō Tripitaka and CBETA, with translations by the author; there is no quantitative sample, statistical analysis, or fieldwork.
Limitations
- The paper explicitly states that it does not address institutions or social practices, nor the authorship, translation, reception, or implementation of texts by historical actors; it analyzes normative discourse, not realities “on the ground.”
- It also states that individual Chinese commentators’ syntheses are beyond its scope and treated elsewhere, and it warns that normative prohibitions should not be read as descriptions of actual monastic behavior.
- Evident from the text: the survey is selective and thematic rather than exhaustive, relies on Chinese translations and the author’s renderings, and offers no systematic sampling or independent empirical verification of the practices discussed.
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The vinayas usually permit monastics to seek medical assistance from doctors when they fall ill.
“In addition to monastics helping one another, the vinayas usually also permit them to seek medical assistance from doctors when they fall ill.”
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This line was quoted by Chinese commentators as one of the principal doctrinal justifications for providing medical and nursing care within the monastic setting.
“This particular line came to be quoted by Chinese commentators as one of the principal doctrinal justifications for providing medical and nursing care within the monastic setting.”
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The Buddha sets an example for how the sangha should care for one another in a narrative that appears in multiple vinayas and other texts.
“The Buddha himself sets an example for how the sangha should care for one another in a particularly influential narrative that appears in multiple vinayas, and in a range of other texts as well.”
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The various recensions of the vinaya each contain a section on medicine outlining allowable procedures and medicinal substances and methods for preparing and storing them.
“The various recensions of the vinaya each contain a section on medicine that outlines in detail the procedures and medicinal substances that were allowable for the sangha to administer to one another, as well as methods for preparing and storing them.”
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A radically different understanding of the relationship between Buddhism and medicine emerged in mature Mahāyāna literature.
“a radically different understanding of the relationship between Buddhism and medicine emerged in mature Mahāyāna literature.”
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The Mahāyāna was a doctrinal and textual movement that emerged in India in the early centuries C.E.
“The Mahāyāna was a doctrinal and textual movement that emerged in India in the early centuries C.E.”
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The notion of skillful means permitted engagement with worldly knowledge that had been viewed as separate from or opposed to Buddhist teaching, redirecting such practices toward Mahayana soteriological aims.
“This usage of the concept of skillful means authorized engagements with worldly knowledge (often referred to with the character fang 方, as in both fangbian and yifang above) that was previously considered separate from, or even at odds with Buddhist doctrine.44 It redirected or reoriented these practices toward Mahāyāna soteriological ends.”
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There is no single unitary Buddhist viewpoint on the relationship between healing and salvation.
“Most fundamentally, we have realized that there is no single unitary Buddhist viewpoint on the relationship between healing and salvation.”
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Most often, healing was immediate, a moment of divine blessing or empowerment in which a seemingly miraculous cure occurred.
“Most of the time, however, the healing was more immedi-ate, a moment of divine blessing or empowerment (Ch.jiachi 加持; Skt.adhiṣṭhāna) in which a seemingly miraculous healing took place.”
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As a group, Mahayana texts present a vision of Buddhism and medicine radically different from that of the āgamas and vinayas.
“As a group, Mahāyāna texts, whether mentioned here or not, present us with a vision about the relationship between Buddhism and medicine that is radically different than the āgamas and vinayas introduced in the previous section.”
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One of the most relevant Mahāyāna innovations was the reconceptualization of the ideal Buddhist practitioner from the arhat to the bodhisattva.
“One of the most relevant Mahāyāna innovations was how the ideal Buddhist practitioner was reconceptualized.”
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If a meditator practiced visualization, a deity might appear in a vision and perform procedures such as trephination, acupuncture, medicated enema, or massage.
“Alternatively, if a meditator engaged in visualization practices, a deity might appear in a vision and perform other medical procedures such as trephination, acupuncture, medicated enema, or massage.”
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In Mahayana texts, healing is central to how bodhisattvas advance the Dharma and fulfill their role as vanquishers of suffering, rather than being forbidden as too worldly.
“Far from being proscribed on account of being too worldly, the practice of healing is central to how bodhisattvas of all levels advance the Dharma in the world, and how they fulfill their role as a vanquishers of suffering on behalf of all sentient beings.”
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Far from being a worldly practice best left to the unordained, healing the sick masses became something that devout Mahāyāna monastics were expected to engage in.
“Far from being a worldly practice best left to the unordained, healing the sick masses now became something that devout Mahāyāna monastics were expected to engage in.”
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In line with Mahayana non-duality, the worldly/supramundane dichotomy is resolved by absorbing the worldly into the supramundane under skillful means.
“In line with the Mahāyāna teaching of non-duality (Ch.buer 不二; Skt.advaita) more generally, the worldly/supramundane dichotomy comes to be resolved by absorbing the former into the latter under the rubric of skillful means.”
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As an expedient that alleviates suffering, medicine is reconciled with and integrated into Dharma practice.
“As an expedient that alleviates suffering, medicine comes to be reconciled with and integrated closely into the practice of the Dharma.”
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- Interpretationnone given§ * * *
The more a practice is denigrated or prohibited in the vinaya, the more likely it was widespread among contemporary monastics.
“In fact, the more a particular practice is denigrated or proscribed in the vinaya, the more likely it is that it was widespread among contemporary monastics.”
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The widespread use of such metaphors, even for fundamental doctrines like the Four Noble Truths, makes clear that medicine, though worldly, had an overall positive association that Buddhist authors wanted to tap into.
“The fact that such metaphors are widespread in the Buddhist literature-and can even be used in reference to doctrines as fundamental as the Four Noble Truths-makes it clear that medicine, though worldly, had an overall positive association that Buddhist authors wanted to tap into.”
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In vinayas and āgamas, medicine is usually portrayed as a worldly pursuit unsuitable for the ordained.
“medicine is typically characterized as a worldly pursuit inappropriate for the ordained.”
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Findingnone givenThese early positions were never as influential in China as those of the Mahāyāna tradition.
“Although they were translated into Chinese and were widely held to be foundational, these positions were never as influential in China as those of the Mahāyāna tradition discussed in the second section.”
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Findingnone givenThe question of the relationship between alleviating illness and final salvation from all suffering appears across genres of the Buddhist canon.
“This question appears and reappears across the genres of the Buddhist canon.”
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FindingreasoningIllness was a frequent topic of concern in the Buddhist discourses examined.
“As one of the most obvious forms of suffering encountered in everyday human life, illness was a frequent topic of concern in these discourses.”
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Findingcitation§ * * *Yu Fakai (ca. 310-370) became especially famed for using acupuncture to treat a difficult birth and pulse diagnosis to diagnose the emperor, and his biography quotes him as saying he benefits both himself and others by combining Buddhist virtues and medical techniques.
“For example, Yu Fakai 于法開 (ca.310-370), became especially famed for his proficiency using acupuncture to treat a difficult birth and pulse diagnosis to diagnose the emperor.”
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Findingcitation§ * * *The Brahmā's Net Sūtra made healing the sick a basic requirement for all disciples, whether monastic or lay, and asserted that healing the sick is the highest among the fields of merit, over and above giving donations to the sangha.
“the Brahmā's Net Sūtra (Fanwang jing 梵網經, T. 1484), made healing the sick a basic requirement for all disciples, whether monastic or lay.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The Brahmā's Net Sūtra was composed in China and falsely presented as a legitimate Indian disciplinary code.
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Findingcitation§ * * *The vinayas and āgama texts express a surprisingly positive opinion of lay physicians and often celebrate their professional achievements.
“In fact, the vinayas and āgama texts express a surprisingly positive opinion of lay physicians, and often vocally celebrate their professional achievements.”
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Premisenone givenThe Mahāyāna significantly shaped the East Asian reception of Buddhism and was the predominant doctrinal framework in that region.
“This movement significantly shaped the East Asian reception of Buddhism, as it was by far the predominant doctrinal framework in that part of the world.”
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InterpretationreasoningHow authoritative Buddhist literature characterizes the relationship between healing and salvation is complex.
“As I will show below, how authoritative Buddhist literature characterizes the relationship between healing and salvation is complex.”
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PremisereasoningChinese audiences were exposed to varied, even conflicting, versions of Buddhist doctrines associated with many different sects or schools.
“They were simultaneously exposed to varied, even conflicting, versions of Buddhist doctrines that were associated with many different sects or schools.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *The Buddha's answer in this story is emblematic of Mahayana ideas about compassion, skillful means, and deities' role in the world.
“The Buddha's answer is emblematic of Mahāyāna conceptions about compassion, skillful means, and the role deities play in the world:”
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Premisenone given§ * * *In medieval China, healing rituals ranged from large state affairs with thousands of monks chanting for hundreds of days to small lay groups funding shrines to individual monks healing villagers with secret spells.
“In medieval China, healing rituals ranged from major state affairs with thousands of monks chanting for hundreds of days, to a group of lay devotees pooling their money to finance construction of a shrine for a particular deity, to an individual itinerant monk who was healing the residents of his village with a secret healing spell.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *The Sūtra on Bathing the Sangha in the Bathhouse tells how Jīvaka donated his bathhouse to the sangha and gained immense merit.
“This text, the Sūtra on Bathing the Sangha in the Bathhouse (Foshuo wenshi xiyu zongseng jing 佛 說溫室洗浴眾僧經, T. 701), relates the story of how Jīvaka donated the use of his bathhouse to the sangha and the immense merits he gained by this action.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *Bodhisattvas are to learn physicians' worldly knowledge and practice it to save all beings by any necessary means.
“The worldly knowledge of the physicians is to be learned by bodhisattvas and put into practice in fulfillment of their mission to save all beings by any means necessary.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *Vinayas and āgamas often connect Buddhism and medicine through analogies, similes, and metaphors and generally regard physicians and medicine highly.
“While the vinayas and āgamas frequently connect Buddhism and medicine through analogies, similes, and metaphors-and generally hold physicians and the practice of medicine in high regard-medicine is typically characterized as a worldly pursuit inappropriate for the ordained.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *The narrative teaches that for a Mahayana practitioner no practice, however worldly, is unusable as skillful means by an accomplished bodhisattva.
“Through this chain of encounters, the reader learns that for the Mahāyāna practitioner, there are no practices, no matter how worldly, that cannot be used as skillful means by an accomplished bodhisattva.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *This passage underscores the idea that helping the needy creates immense karmic merit and advances one toward buddhahood.
“This passage underscores the familiar notion that there is immense karmic merit that arises from helping the needy, and that engaging in this activity will propel one along the path to buddhahood.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *Among Sudhana's teachers is Samantanetra, a seller of incense and aromatic medicines, who affirms healing's importance for the bodhisattva path and instructs Sudhana in his trade.
“Among the many lay teachers Sudhana meets is a seller of incense and aromatic medicines named Samantanetra, who affirms the importance of healing for the bodhisattva path and instructs the young seeker in his trade.”
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Study design and conductown data§ * * *The author does not treat normative texts as descriptive of actual practice.
“It is also important to underscore here that I am not taking these normative texts as descriptive of practice on the ground.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *The diversity and complexity of Buddhist canonical writings made them useful for exegetical projects.
“What made Buddhist canonical writings useful for such exegetical projects was precisely the diversity and complexity of their exposition.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *In Mahayana usage, skillful means can denote worldly actions by a buddha or bodhisattva that may indirectly guide suffering beings toward liberation.
“The term often also refers to the worldly activities a buddha or bodhisattva engages in that may eventually, though indirectly, help to lead suffering beings toward the higher goal of liberation.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *The sangha may and should provide medical or nursing care within the monastery, but should generally focus on supramundane pursuits leading directly to liberation.
“The sangha can and should offer one another medical or nursing care within the confines of the monastery, but on the whole they should concentrate on supramundane pursuits that lead directly to liberation.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *When invoked, these deities sometimes intervened as medical practitioners; Avalokiteśvara was known to perform abdominal surgery on a supplicant in a dream.
“When called upon, these compassionate deities sometimes would intervene in the form of medical practitioners: the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, for example, was known to perform abdominal surgery on a supplicant in a dream while he or she slept.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *Not all perspectives reviewed were equally valued by such authors, but they offered a range of understandings that could be marshaled, examined, and incorporated into exegetical projects.
“Not all of the perspectives reviewed in this paper were equally valued by such authors, but they provided a range of understandings that could be marshaled, examined, and incorporated into such projects.”
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Interpretationcitation§ * * *Jīvaka's healing abilities are of the worldly type, but his livelihood as a physician is meant to be seen as wholesome and a source of great karmic merit.
“Nevertheless, his livelihood as a physician is clearly meant to be seen as a wholesome one.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *Witnesses, both human and spiritual, doubted that the Buddha would demean himself by touching a monk covered in diarrhea.
“Witnesses to this act (who are both human and spiritual beings) raise doubts that the Buddha would demean himself by touching a monk covered in diarrhea.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *In Samantanetra's presentation, these physicians' methods become essential tools for spiritual development of self and others.
“However, in Samantanetra's hands, these become essential tools for the spiritual development of one's self and others.”
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Premisenone given§ * * *Skillful means appears only rarely in non-Mahāyānic Buddhist discourses and is one of the definitive doctrines of the Mahāyāna.
“A term that appears only rarely in non-Mahāyānic Buddhist discourses, skillful means is one of the definitive doctrines of the Mahāyāna.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *Zhiyi, Daoxuan, and Daoshi all wrote about medicine's role in Buddhist practice from the divergent standpoints of a meditation teacher, a vinaya reformer, and an anthologizer.
“For example, the contemporaries Zhiyi 智顗 (538-597), Daoxuan 道宣 (596-667), and Daoshi 道世 (?-683) all wrote about the role of medicine in the practice of Buddhism, though from the divergent standpoints of a meditation teacher, a vinaya reformer, and an anthologizer of scripture and popular narratives.”
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- cites Daoxuan
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- cites Daoshi
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- Rests on an assumption: Normative prescriptions in vinayas and sutras can be used to reconstruct theological positions on healing and salvation even though they are not treated as descriptions of actual practice.
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *An aspiring bodhisattva who masters conventional medical knowledge can extend the lives of suffering beings, giving them more time and motivation to learn the ultimate Dharma.
“By mastering a body of conventional healing knowledge (i.e., yifang), the aspiring bodhisattva can help to elongate the lives of suffering beings, which gives them more time and motivation to learn the ultimate truth of the Dharma.”
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Premisenone given§ * * *These deities were popularly propitiated with rituals including sūtra chanting, prayer, invocation, offerings, and confession.
“They were popularly propitiated with rituals such as sūtra chanting, prayer, invocation, offerings, and confession.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *The Mahāyāna inherited the monastic disciplinary regulations, the laukika/lokottara distinction, the idea that medical practice is meritorious for lay physicians, and the complex of medical metaphors, and newly composed Mahāyāna sūtras built upon these doctrines and introduced new perspectives.
“The Mahāyāna inherited all of the elements discussed in the previous section: the monastic disciplinary regulations, the laukika/lokottara distinction, the idea that medical practice is a highly meritorious activity for lay physicians, and the complex of medical metaphors.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *Healing the sick is a paradigmatic example of this kind of expedient practice.
“Healing the sick is in many ways the paradigmatic expedient of this type.”
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Premisenone given§ * * *According to conventional Mahayana theology, deities could intervene in devotees' health, and doing so was their very purpose.
“According to conventional Mahāyāna theology, not only could the deities intervene in the health of their devotees in these ways, but doing so was their very raison d' être.”
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Premisenone given§ * * *Samantanetra gives a detailed discourse on the body, internal and external causes of illness, the Four Elements, tridoṣa, and medicinal effects.
“Here, Samantanetra gives an extensive discourse on the nature of the physical body, the internal and external causes of illness, the Four Elements, the tridoṣa, and the healing effects of various medicinals.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *The passage also highlights the Mahayana insight that compassionate relief and protection of the suffering is the core mission of buddhas and bodhisattvas.
“However, equally prominent here is the Mahāyāna insight that bringing compassionate relief and protection to the suffering is the core mission of buddhas and bodhisattvas in the world.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *Despite medicine being worldly knowledge inappropriate for a monk to practice, early Buddhist literature generally forwards a positive portrayal of physicians and their skills, but treats medicine as a distraction from the supramundane and best left to lay professionals.
“To summarize, despite medicine being worldly knowledge that would be inappropriate or unseemly for a monk to practice, early Buddhist literature generally forwards a positive portrayal of physicians and their skills.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *Across many East Asian scriptures, figures such as Bhaiṣajyaguru, Amitāyus or Amitābha, Bhaiṣajyaraja, and Avalokiteśvara are celebrated for protective powers and health interventions.
“the bodhisattva Hearer of the World's Cries (Ch.Guanshiyin 觀世音; Skt.Avalokiteśvara), and others are celebrated for their protective powers and health interventions.”
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Premisenone given§ * * *The guides include lay teachers in worldly professions such as householders, a grammarian, a perfumer, a sailor, a goldsmith, and a prostitute.
“They notably include lay teachers who are practitioners of worldly professions: several householders, a grammarian, a perfumer, a sailor, a goldsmith, even a prostitute.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *A more integrated position emerged with the development of Mahayana Buddhism.
“The second section introduced what we might call a more integrated position that emerged with the development of Mahāyāna Buddhism.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *The Scripture of the Entry into the Realm of Reality contains a narrative of Sudhana meeting fifty-two spiritual guides during his quest.
“One section of this composite scripture, independently named the Scripture of the Entry into the Realm of Reality (Ch.Ru fajie pin 入法界品; Skt.Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra), contains a narrative depiction of the encounter between an aspiring young bodhisattva, Sudhana, and fifty-two spiritual guides he meets during his epic quest for teachings.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *The Flower Ornament Sutra offers an example of medical practice being reframed as skillful means.
“One of the most important Mahāyāna texts, the Flower Ornament Sūtra (Ch.Huayan jing 華嚴經; Skt.Avataṃsaka Sūtra), provides an illustrative example of how medical practice came to be reframed in this way.”
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Interpretationnone given§ * * *The texts make clear that one side of the medicine-Dharma equation is superior to the other.
“At the same time as they establish structural parallels between medicine and key aspects of the Dharma, the texts do not shy away from making clear that one side of the equation is superior to the other.”
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Premisecitation§ * * *This theme recurs throughout Mahayana literature, including the Lotus Sutra, Mahāparinirvāṇa Sutra, Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sutra, and many others.
“This theme is picked up again and again across the Mahāyāna literature, including in some of the most influential texts of the East Asian Buddhist corpus (such as, for example, the Lotus Sūtra, Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra, and many others).”
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- cites Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
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- cites Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra
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Premisenone given§ * * *In this version, the story of the Buddha nursing a monk with dysentery is retold with a Mahayanic twist.
“Here, the story of the Buddha nursing the monk with dysentery is retold yet again-but this time with a Mahāyānic twist.”
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Premisenone given§ * * *These deities were the focus of ritual liturgies, commentaries, miracle tales, and other genres translated and produced in medieval China.
“These deities were the focus of ritual liturgies, commentaries, popular miracle tales, and other genres both translated and domestically produced in the medieval period.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimMay combine two claims.
Interpretationcitation§ * * *Narratives about the Buddha's previous lives as a bodhisattva existed previously and involved healing; when written by Mahāyāna authors, they became opportunities to model how a Mahāyāna practitioner should work for the salvation of all beings.
“While narratives about the Buddha's own previous lives as a bodhisattva had existed previously (these are called jātaka tales; Ch. benshen 本 生) and had also previously involved healing, when written by Mahāyāna authors, these became opportunities to model how a Mahāyāna practitioner should work for the salvation of all beings.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *This synthesis of Buddhism and medicine is an ideal means of simultaneously benefiting other beings while advancing on one's own bodhisattva path.
“This synthesis of Buddhism and medicine is an ideal means of simultaneously benefiting other beings while advancing on his own bodhisattva path.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Mahāyāna Buddhism valued compassionate service to all beings over individual liberation.
Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S4 (based). May combine two claims.
Interpretationnone given§ * * *The vinayas, āgamas, and sūtras translated in medieval China came from a wide range of times and places and reflected different, even incompatible, priorities.
“The vinayas, āgamas, and sūtras being translated in medieval China were the products of a wide range of time and geography, and reflected different, even mutually incompatible, priorities.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim- Rests on an assumption: The Buddhist texts examined are sufficiently representative to support the paper's general conclusion that Buddhist views on healing and salvation are not unitary.
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Premisecitation§ * * *In the translation completed around 800, Samantanetra explains that Sudhana must first learn medicine to heal himself, since otherwise he cannot hope to progress on the path in this lifetime.
“As told in the translation of the sūtra completed around 800, the enlightened merchant explains to the aspiring young bodhisattva that, in the first place, medicine is important to learn because he needs to be able to heal himself from any illnesses that he may experience, if there is to be any hope of his making progress on the path in this lifetime.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *This positive depiction of medicine in the Jalavāhana narrative can only be read as an endorsement of medicine as fully compatible with the bodhisattva vows of compassion and selfless service.
“This unflinchingly positive depiction of the motivations and efficacy behind the practice of medicine can be only read as an endorsement of it as fully compatible with the bodhisattva vows of compassion and selfless service.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim: may not pass S4 (based). May combine two claims.
Interpretationreasoning§ * * *Buddhist texts represent a complex spectrum of doctrines distinguishing worldly activities from salvation and theorizing how a committed practitioner should respond to illness.
“Rather, they represent a complex spectrum of doctrines distinguishing the role of worldly activities from the pursuit of salvation, and theorizing how one should ideally respond to the suffering of illness as a committed practitioner of the Dharma.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Normative prescriptions in vinayas and sutras can be used to reconstruct theological positions on healing and salvation even though they are not treated as descriptions of actual practice.
Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing), S4 (based).
Premisenone given§ * * *The Mahayana universe contains countless benevolent divine and semi-divine saviors ready to help the sick in their greatest need.
“Aside from Samantanetra, the Mahāyāna universe teems with countless other benevolent, compassionate, powerful divine and semi-divine saviors who are waiting to help the sick in their direst time of need.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimClassified as probably not a substantial claim. May combine two claims.
Premisecitation§ * * *Samantanetra advises Sudhana to heal the king first, then all beings in the kingdom, and only after their physical healing to teach contemplative methods.
“He should begin, Samantanetra counsels, with healing the king of the country, and then proceed to all of the beings living within the kingdom.Only once they are healed physically should he proceed to teach them contemplative or meditative methods.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claimProbably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing).
Premisecitation§ * * *After healing himself, Sudhana must care for other beings, helping them thrive and be happy so they may receive higher Dharma teachings.
“Once having healed himself, he then must turn his attention to caring for other beings, helping them to thrive and be happy, so that they may be open to receiving the higher teachings of the Dharma.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ * * *Advanced bodhisattvas and enlightened buddhas are celebrated as universal healers with lifetimes of medical care experience.
“Advanced bodhisattvas and enlightened buddhas are to be celebrated as universal healers with lifetimes of experience providing medical care to the suffering.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Normative prescriptions in vinayas and sutras can be used to reconstruct theological positions on healing and salvation even though they are not treated as descriptions of actual practice.
Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S4 (based).
Interpretationreasoning§ * * *In Mahayana texts, buddhas and advanced bodhisattvas are not merely metaphorical physicians or physicians in past lives; they literally can relieve devotees of all illnesses in this life.
“Here, Buddhas and advanced bodhisattvas are not simply metaphorical physicians or physicians in previous lives; they literally have the ability to bring devotees relief from all illnesses in this one.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
The paper relies on this without support.
The Chinese Buddhist texts surveyed are representative of early Buddhist and Mahāyāna literature, so general conclusions about those traditions can be drawn from them.
“Below, I survey this range or spectrum in two separate sections.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Brahmā's Net Sūtra was composed in China and falsely presented as a legitimate Indian disciplinary code.
“One important fifth-century guide to the bodhisattva path composed in China and passed off as a legitimate Indian disciplinary code, the Brahmā's Net Sūtra”
The paper relies on this without support.
Mahāyāna Buddhism valued compassionate service to all beings over individual liberation.
“Since the Mahāyāna valued the compassionate service to all beings over and above the pursuit of individual liberation”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Buddhist texts examined are sufficiently representative to support the paper's general conclusion that Buddhist views on healing and salvation are not unitary.
“Most fundamentally, we have realized that there is no single unitary Buddhist viewpoint on the relationship between healing and salvation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Normative prescriptions in vinayas and sutras can be used to reconstruct theological positions on healing and salvation even though they are not treated as descriptions of actual practice.
“It is also important to underscore here that I am not taking these normative texts as descriptive of practice on the ground.”
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In early Buddhism, physical health is not the goal but a prerequisite for achieving the final goal of liberation by completely and irreversibly transcending the painful realm of birth and death.
“In that sense, physical health is not the goal but a prerequisite for achieving the final goal of liberation by completely and irreversibly transcending the painful realm of birth and death.”
From Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion (2020) · cites this paper as Salguero 2018, 15
In the discussion of early Buddhist literature (section marked * * *, page unavailable), the paper says medicine helps sick monastics return to their work, while liberation—not healing—is the central pursuit. It does not say physical health is a prerequisite for liberation; its stronger claim that healing is needed to make progress comes from a later Mahāyāna account. The copy also does not describe liberation here as completely and irreversibly transcending birth and death. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn some strands of East Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism, healing the sick was not only recommended for all aspiring bodhisattvas, but was also considered an indispensable or even required practice.
“Accordingly, 'healing the sick was not only recommended for all aspiring bodhisattvas, but was also considered an indispensable or even required practice,' as Salguero has put it.”
From Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion (2020) · cites this paper as Salguero 2018, 17
In early Buddhism, as Pierce Salguero has demonstrated, medicine serves a useful purpose as far as it enables monastics to get back to their work, but it is a distraction from the quest for the supramundane and should be left to the lay professionals.
“As Pierce Salguero has recently demonstrated, in early Buddhism, '[a]s far as it enables monastics to get back to their work, medicine serves a useful purpose, but it is a distraction from the quest for the supramundane and should be left to the lay professionals.'”
From Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion (2020) · cites this paper as Salguero 2018, 15
In some strands of East Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism, engaging in 'the practice of medicine' was seen as fully compatible with the bodhisattva vows of compassion and selfless service.
“Engaging in 'the practice of medicine' was now seen 'as fully compatible with the bodhisattva vows of compassion and selfless service.'”
From Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion (2020) · cites this paper as Salguero 2018, 17
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MinorThe discussion cites Shinohara's work as published in 2005, while the reference list gives 2007 for the same title.
“Daoxuan's viewpoints are described in Shi- nohara (2005), "The Moment of Death in Daoxuan's Vinaya Commentary;"”
“Shinohara, Koichi (2007). "The Moment of Death in Daoxuan's Vinaya Commen- tary. "”
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- Authors
- Salguero, C. P.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Salguero, C. Pierce
- ORCID
- Salguero, C. Pierce
- Venue
- Working paper series of the HCAS 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
- Publisher
- Leipzig University
- Published
- 2018-04-13
- ISSN
- 2700-5518 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2979844413
- Semantic Scholar
- 263213c394be6fc9b09bbdda8a6188321fa85aa0
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 3
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- Language
- en
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- Locations
- Working paper series of the HCAS "Multiple secularities - beyond the west, beyond modernities" (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Keywords
- healing, salvation, secularism, religion and healing
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