WANG Dawei, SHEN Tao. Medicine-Related Monks in Sui and Tang Dynasties and Their Traditional Chinese Medicine Practices[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2018, 59(16): 1357-1362.
WANG Dawei, SHEN Tao. Medicine-Related Monks in Sui and Tang Dynasties and Their Traditional Chinese Medicine Practices[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2018, 59(16): 1357-1362.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2018.16.003.
Buddhism gradually completed its Chineseization in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.At this time
many Buddhist monks had brilliant medical skills
such as RI Ji
WEN Mei
XIE Daoren
LIN Daoren
JIAN Zhen
which appeared in the traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) classics. They were the representative of the medicine-related monks. At this time
the cultural exchanges between China and the outside world were very prosperous. The medicine-related monks recorded in the TCM books were almost all using Chinese medicine to practice. At the same time
these monks appeared in the classics of Chinese medicine
indicating that the Chinese medicine field at that time had already recognized their medical skills and academic standards. The editors of the TCM literature compiled the relevant doctors into the literature when they selected the relevant figures
and excluded those mysterious medicine-related monks who appeared in the history and other literatures.