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Chapter 58 The ?o??ng Nha?n Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy's Medical Encyclopedia

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In comparison with other regions in the Sinitic world, a rather small number of medical texts has been preserved in Vietnam. Reasons given are unfavorable local conditions, such as the warm and humid climate, and destruction through prolonged periods of warfare. Also, and in contrast to Ming-Qing dynasty China or Edo Japan, Vietnam lacked a commercial, urban printing industry until the 1920s. Pre-twentieth-century Vietnamese medical manuscripts are consequently rare. Published medical texts are even more so. It's only thanks to the ?o??ng Nha?n Pagoda in Ba??c Ninh Province that Le? Hu??u Tra?c's (1720?-1791) Understandings of Ha?i Thu?o??ng's Medical Lineage (1770-1786), the most celebrated text of Sino-Vietnamese medicine, has been preserved in printed form, almost in its entirety.1 One of the prefaces to this text, written by abbot Thi?ch Thanh Cao (?-1896), is translated below

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New York : ., 2017

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