Tibetan medicine had developed a rather sophisticated knowledge of anatomy and physiology, which was acquired from their long-standing experience with human dissection. Tibetans out of necessity, had long ago adopted the practice of celestial burial (also Sky burial) because of Tibet's harsh terrain in most of the year and deficit of wood for cremation. This form of Sky burial, still practiced, begins with a ritual dissection of the deceased, and then followed by the feeding of the parts to vultures on the hill tops. Both the location of the ritual dissection and the place of feeding is understood as the charnel ground. Over time, anatomical knowledge found its way into Ayurveda[1] and to a lesser extent into China. As result, Tibet has become a home of the Buddhist medical centers Chogppori and Menchikhang (or Menhang),[2][3] between the twelfth to sixteenth century A.D., where monks came to study even from foreign countries.
Fisher donationedit
Emily Fisher, a trustee at The American Museum of Natural History, donated modern copies of a series of seventy-nine Tibetan Buddhisttangkas (religious paintings) that were originally commissioned in 1687 by the fifthDalai Lama's regent, Sangye Gyamtso (1653-1705).[4] He had the paintings done to elucidate his commentary on the "Four Tantras" (Tib. Gyushi)[5] - eighth-century TantricBuddhist texts that form the foundation of Tibetan medicine and cover physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and cure. With such depictions, the Tantric Buddhist system of healing[6] could, according to Sangye Gyamtso, be "perceived by everybody, from the scholar to the child, as dearly as one would see a myrobalan[7][8] (the foremost healing plant in the Tibetan tradition) held in the palm of one's hand."
Art historyedit
The original set of these thangkas, which were kept in Lhasa, were destroyed by the Chinese military in 1959, but these recent copies, based on three surviving sets, were painted over the course of seven years by Nepalese atelier Romio Shrestha,[9] who followed religious and artistic conventions in copying the seventeenth-century originals. Shrestha's paintings on cloth, which are filled with astonishing renditions of a variety of physical conditions and illnesses, have been digitally photographed and incorporated into the Museum of Natural History, Division of Anthropology's image database.
^The Roots of Ayurveda (Penguin Classics) by Various and Dominik Wujastyk (2003)
^His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Oral Biography by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober (2005) p.14
^Tao & Dharma: Chinese Medicine & Ayurveda by Robert Svoboda and Arnie Lade (1995) p.89
^Dorje, Gyurme; Parfionovitch, Yuri; Meyer, Fernand (1992). Tibetan Medical Paintings: Illustrations to the Blue Beryl Treatise of Sangye Gyamtso. London: Serindia / Harry N Abrams. ISBN0810938618.
^The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine by Barry Clark (1995)
^Eating And Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine (Crop Science) (Crop Science) by Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimer Price (2006) pp.346-7
^Tao & Dharma: Chinese Medicine & Ayurveda by Robert Svoboda and Arnie Lade (1995) p.90
^The Tibetan Art of Healing by lan Baker, Dalai Lama, Romio Shrestha, and Deepak Chopra (1997)
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