China, Janet Gyatso observed: "There has been a small explosion in the study of Buddhist medicine in the last several years" (Gyatso 2017, 96).This boom has since expanded even further, being felt primarily in the fields of Asian medicine and Buddhist studies.It has become increasingly clear to people within the field that the time has come to "leave the ghetto," to quote a remark by Gyatso on another occasion 1) -that the subject of Buddhist medicine is relevant beyond its own confines.It is relevant also for historians of medicine, for historians of Asia, and for historians in general.Hence the need, and the huge challenge, to provide a general history of Buddhist medicine, something that A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine set out to accomplish.And it has definitely succeeded.If there is anyone who is up to this momentous task, it is Salguero.He has spearheaded many endeavors related to Buddhist medicine for almost two decades.The present book is, in many respects, an outcome of several of these initiatives.Salguero has written extensively on Chinese Buddhist medicine and Thai medicine, edited two monumental collections of premodern and modern primary sources on Buddhist medicine, and set up a Facebook discussion group.He started the Blue Beryl podcast (Salguero 2022) and is also the editor-in-chief of Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (formerly Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity).There are other undertakings to his credit, but for lack of space these will suffice to give the overall picture.Spearheading the above efforts has meant, first, that Salguero has for quite some time probed and written about the tricky question of what "Buddhist medicine" might mean, and indeed how difficult it is to define.Buddhist medicine is not really a field in any static, potentially comforting manner, but rather-as Salguero himself has defined it in several of his publications-a "moving
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Thu,) studied this question.