RLST 122: Medicine and Asian Religions in Global Circulation

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; individualized study, 6 hours; research, 1 hour; term paper, 2 hours

Catalog page 507

Prerequisites: Restricted to class level standing of Sophomore, Junior, or Senior

Description: Considers the relationship between religious cosmologies, the organization of knowledge, and the practices for managing bodily and natural order that underpin three major medical traditions of Asia in premodern and modern periods: Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Tibet?s Four Tantra Tradition.