Non-Western Healing Traditions

Chinese Medicine

• CHANT: Chinese Ancient Texts Database – database of traditional ancient Chinese texts, 200–581 A.D.  *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
• Chinese Works: Cambridge Digital Library –  The objects in this collection come from a broad temporal range, diversity of media and variety of subject-matter from the 3,000 year old oracle bones to unique manuscripts and printed books, historical documents and epigraphical rubbings
• East Asian Library Digital Bookshelf: Princeton University Digital Library – A miscellany of items digitized at the Princeton University Library from the East Asian Library holdings but belonging to no well-defined collection. The items include books, manuscripts, reports, maps, and albums from many eras.
• Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō: Princeton University Digital Library – Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō brings together works from various Princeton University Library collections that have, as their theme, the rest stops along Japan’s legendary Tōkaidō Road.
• Japanese and Chinese Prints and Drawings: Princeton University Digital Library – This collection represents a small portion of the Far Eastern works on paper held by the graphic arts division. Also included are several sketchbooks, which were collected together with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drawings.
• Japanese Ehon: Princeton University Digital Library – From the 17th through 19th century the ehon or “picture book” was one of Japan’s most important art forms. It was in these heavily illustrated volumes that some of the most famous woodblock print artists of the day began their careers, experimenting with the compositions, color, and printing techniques that we find in their later Ukiyo-e masterpieces.
• Japanese Medical Prints: Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas – A small collection of Japanese paintings and woodblock prints on the subject of medicine
• Japanese Prints and Drawings in the Costen Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – Spanning from the Edo Period (1600-1868) to the first half of the twentieth century, this collection contains hand-painted scrolls, game boards (sugoroku), woodblock prints, pictorial maps, classroom wall charts, and playing cards (iroha karuta).
• Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: UCSF – This collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics, providing a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West
• Japanese Works: Cambridge Digital Library – This collection of early Japanese books presents a wide range of the various aspects of early Japanese learning, as well as excellent samples of Japan’s early printing culture
• The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online – An international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available online
• Turning the Pages Online: National Library of Medicine – digitized images of rare and historic books in the history of medicine including Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook
• UBC Asian Library Chinese Rare Books Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – thousands of titles of rare Chinese books

India/Ayurveda

• Oriental Collections – Bodleian Libraries – 38 manuscripts from the Middle East and Asia
• Sanskrit Manuscripts: Cambridge Digital Library – The collection consists of works in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Tamil and other ancient and medieval South Asian languages, produced over a time-span of more than 1,000 years, and written in over a dozen scripts. Along with doctrinal, exegetical and ritual works issued from the many religious traditions of South Asia Library’s holdings also include texts on a variety of “secular” topics, ranging from works of poetry and drama to treatises on philosophy, mathematics, grammar, astronomy, law, eroticism, medicine, archery, and horse breeding.

Vodou

• The Vodou Archive: The Digital Library of the Caribbean – Audiovisual and textual content depicting Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition