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C. Pierce Salguero is a scholar of Buddhism and Asian medicine and the program chair of health humanities at Pennsylvania State University–Abington. He is the author of A Lamp unto Yourself: A Beginner’s Guide to Asian Spiritual Practices (2025), A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine (2022), Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical (2022), and numerous other books and articles focusing on Buddhist medicine. Learn more at jivaka.net
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