Text

E-book The Practice of Texts : Education and Healing in South India

---

Penilaian

---

Prathik was a young ayurvedic physician, fresh out of college, and studying one of the Sanskrit medical classics, the A????gah?daya,at Mookkamangalam gurukula in India’s southwestern state of Kerala when he told me this.2 Prathik and I had spoken about his education over the course of several days, and he was always candid about the differences he saw between the requirements for his BAMS degree—Bachelor’s of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery—and for those of earlier generations. Even if his grandfather’s degree was the result of a collegiate experi-ence similar to his own, with multiple professors, lecture halls, and a large student body, Prathik felt that his grandfather’s education was somehow more authentic than the one he got. “My grandfather also learned n???uvaidya? [“country medi-cine,” Mal.3],” he continued, “the kind of Ayurveda special to Kerala. He had regu-lar interactions with traditional teachers who knew both Sanskrit and Malayalam medicine.”4 When I spoke with Prathik, he was one of several enthusiastic stu-dents at Mookkamangalam who were hoping to supplement the half-allopathic/half-ayurvedic education they got at college with training similar to what they imagined earlier generations of ayurvedic physicians had.For many students and practitioners of Ayurveda I have met at Mookkaman-galam over the years—several of whom appear in this book—to study at a guru-kulameans connecting with ayurvedic tradition in a way the ayurvedic college curriculum does not permit. Learning how to read and understand the Sanskrit classics at Mookkamangalam offers current college students and young physicians a chance to engage the literary foundations of their profession in ways that India’s ayurvedic colleges eliminated in a series of reforms in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries during the Ayurvedic Revitalization Movement (ARM). In the eyes of many students of Ayurveda, a south Indian gurukulalike Mookkamangalam teaches and dispenses ?yurveda, classical life science as we find it compiled in two-thousand-year-old Sanskrit sources, augmented fre-quently with measures of Kerala n???uvaidya?. In the gurukula settings of cen-tral Kerala I visited between 2003–2017, students claim to experience less of an intrusion or even dominance of allopathy (the term often used for biomedicine in India) in the expression of Ayurveda they discovered in the twenty-first century collegiate system.

---

Ketersediaan

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

294.5 CER t

Penerbit

USA : University of California Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

242 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780520383555

Klasifikasi

294.5

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

-

Subjek

Hinduism

Info Detail Spesifik

-

Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

-

Versi lain/terkait

Lampiran Berkas

Komentar

---

Anda harus masuk sebelum memberikan komentar