[Buddha-l] Meanwhile on a small island called Singapore...

[Weng-Fai Wong]

In the online comment given by a Chinese monk (the Venerable Hui Lv) on this
sutra, he made it clear that the sutra was referring to tumours - possibly
cancerous - as the word for "cancer" did not exist then.

W.F. Wong

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> Thanks to Warner for the text and the link.
> 
> Amazing--anal hemorrhoids are only one part of a long list. In
> western medicine this condition only affects the anal region, far
> as I know (at least in popular lore).
> 
> So I wonder if the rest of the list refers to infected boils of
> various kinds. We can see the humoral theory at work in the
> mention of wind (aka dry) and heat hemorrhoids (there are no
> moist and cold ones), so wind and heat were obviously considered
> causal in the ancient humoral system.
> Does anyone know the date of this Mahayana text? Certainly not
> the time of the Buddha.
> I find it surprising that, since the Tibetans (and the Indians)
> developed their own brands of traditional medicine, this text
> does not reflect a Chinese brand of it, but instead only magic.
> 
> Joanna
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> Translation of Taisho 1325 here:
> http://dharanipitaka.gauuboxs.com/Sutra/Sutra-1325.html
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