The Oxford Handbook of Galen 2024
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190913687.013.29
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Galen in Premodern Tibet and China

Dror Weil,
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Abstract: Galen’s name appears in several contexts of Asian medical traditions, and while those references do not come with much substantial medical input, their existence and contexts are important to delineate. Galen comes to Asia through mediating languages, primarily Arabic, Persian, and Syriac. The conduits that caused this knowledge to traverse Asia were a combination of empire and religion: translation projects between Greek, Syriac, and Arabic during the Abbasid dynasty, the movement of Islam and Eastern Christi… Show more

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