Blue Beryl

Buddhist Medicine in Tibet, with Bill McGrath

December 08, 2022 Season 1 Episode 2
Blue Beryl
Buddhist Medicine in Tibet, with Bill McGrath
Show Notes

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Bill McGrath, a historian of Tibetan Buddhism and medicine. He's one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on this subject, and we get deep into the weeds in an academic conversation about traditional Tibetan medicine, the category of Buddhist medicine, and Bill's perspectives on magic, religion, and science. We also reminisce about the time that Bill once used a Tibetan mantra to save the day when we ran out of gas driving home from a conference!

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