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The relationship between religion and nutrition (diets) can be thought of in two ways: diet in religions or diet as religions. The field of food and religion has traditionally been dominated by questions of dietary rules, ritual food sacrifices, and fasting practices, but has currently gained new importance in the context of global sustainability debates. To highlight this contextualisation specifically to Shin Buddhism, I also investigated aspects of the essential phrases within Shin Buddhist history and clarified that the decision to use the contemporary version resulted from an attempt to show the difference between Shin Buddhism and other Buddhist sects in Japan and Christianity. As Graham Harvey has emphasized and elaborated, food and foodways should be the central topics of research in the study of religions, because in this way more accurate statements can be made about lived religion than with an orientation towards the cognitive definition of religion. [Extracted from the article]

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Die tibetische Heilkunde wird als ethnische Medizin in Teilen der Volksrepublik China, in Indien sowie in Regionen Zentralasiens praktiziert. Zudem wirken heute Kundige dieser Heilkunst auch außerhalb Asiens. Da Tibet zutiefst vom Buddhismus geprägt ist, spielen buddhistische Gedanken der Beziehung von Körper, Geist und den Gottheiten eine besondere Rolle in Tibets Medizin. So ist die medizinische Heilung in direktem Zusammenhang mit dem buddhistischen Heil zu sehen. Im Beitrag wird medizinische Episteme aus dieser Tradition anhand von textlichen und bildlichen Primärquellen, die bis heute im Zentrum der Tradierung medizinisch-rituellen Wissens stehen, vorgestellt und diskutiert, welche Probleme sich bei einem Transfer dieses Wissens beispielsweise nach Deutschland ergeben können. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]