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A drawing from the
Blue Beryl illustrating the
Tibetan Buddhist view of the
chakras (Tib.
rsta-khor) and sushumna (Tib.
dbu-ma). The tradition emphasizes the existence of five major
chakras which are depicted possessing twenty-four spokes said to symbolize their ability to generate and link with the numerous subtle meridians or currents (Tib.
rsta). The Brow end Throat centers are associated with the cosmic plane (Tib.
stod), the Heart center to the human plane (Tib.
bar). and the Solar and Vitality centers to the earth plane (Tb.
smad)
[1].
Sangye Gyamtso (1653-1705) (also Desi Sangye Gyamtso) was the regent of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1671-1682) who founded the School of Medicine and Astrology on Chags-po-ri's Hill (or 'Iron Mountain') in 1694[2] and wrote the Blue Beryl (Blue Sapphire) treatise[3][4].
[edit] Iron Mountain
The medical college at Chags-po-ri (Iron Mountain) was designed for monastic scholars who would, after learning esoteric arts of medicine and tantrism, mostly remain in the monastery, serving the public as would other monk scholars and lamas. In 1916, Khenrab Norbu, physician to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, sponsored the construction of a second secular college of Tibetan medicine and Astrology, the Mentsikhang. Mentsikhang was designed as a college for 'laypersons' who would, after receiving training, return to their rural areas for work as doctors and educators.
[edit] Six herbs
Six common medicinal herbs in
Tibet
Six medicinal substances were in common use in Tibet when they appeared in the Blue Beryl Treatise[5][6]:
- Arabic frankincense (Burseraceae} (see on the left, top-left corner);
- Mongolian garlic (see on the left, top-middle);
- Chinese quince (Pseudocydonia) (see on the left, top-right corner);
- Indian embelic myrobalan (Terminalia chebula) (see on the left, bottom-left corner);
- Tibetan ginger (see on the left, bottom-middle);
- South Chinese Kaempferia galanga (see on the left, bottom-right corner);
[edit] References
- ^ Energetic Healing, Embracing the Life Force by Arnie Lade (1999) p.48
- ^ Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science) by Hugh Shapiro and H. Selin (2006) p.87
- ^ Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel (2001) p.267
- ^ The Moses Riddle (Treasure Hunter (Bimini Road Publishing)) by Hunt Kingsbury (2004) p.101
- ^ Gyamtso, S., Klassische Tibetische Medizin (1996) ISBN: 978-3-258-05550-3
- ^ Tibetan Medical Paintings: Illustrations to the Blue Beryl Treatise of Sangye Gyamtso (1653-1705 : Plates and Text) by Gyurme Dorje, Yuri Parfionovitch, and Fernand Meyer (1992)
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