There is a Chinese phrase: A heart that is burdened by hurt or that houses anger is like a poison dragon. Metaphors are intrinsic of Kwan Yin. Riding upon a dragon, the dragon, symbolic of potent energy which can be put to great use, as dragon is an envoy of heaven; Kwan Yin, bodhisattva of […]
Sun Simiao’s Code of Medical Ethics
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Sun Si Miao 孙思邈 [581—682 A.D.], revered Chinese alchemist, scholar, monk, and clinician, has been venerated as the ‘Medicine God,’ Medicine Buddha, a deity invoked during healing practices, and commonly referred to in China as ‘King of Medicine.’ During the Ming Dynasty [1527 A.D.], eight stone tablets engraved with quotations from his works were erected in his […]