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(1 reviews) Author: John Avedon ISBN : 9780847820894 New from Format: PDF
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Tibetan medicine--its ancient knowledge, its pragmatic use of herbs--is gaining increasing attention in the West. This book presents the world's most important collection of Tibetan medical art, an illustrated 17th-century medical text known as
The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine, created by the teacher and scholar Sangye Gyamtso, regent of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama. The paintings are currently held by the History Museum in Ulan Ude, near Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is an area of Russia where the Tibetan-Buddhist monasteries that were destroyed under Stalin are now being rebuilt, a reminder of the vast extent of Tibetan cultural influence.
The book is important both as art--the paintings are imaginative and of very high quality--and as the outline of an entire system of medical diagnosis and treatment. Introductory chapters describe the history and foundations of Tibetan medicine, the exciting story of the atlas's salvation from destruction in the 1930s, and the basic theories and concepts that underpin Tibetan medicine. Forty of the most important thankhas that make up the atlas are illustrated and explained in detailed commentaries. Readers discover a work that is more than a treatise on medicine, embodying a total concept of humankind as biological and social beings, combining physical and spiritual attributes in sophisticated ways that are the antithesis of the fragmentation and alienation of modern Western life. --John Stevenson
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Tibetan medicine is a long-lived, revered, and successful aspect of Tibetan Buddhism that has, like other Tibetan spiritual perspectives and practices, extended its reach far beyond the geographic and cultural boundaries of the land of its origin. A holistic system, it involves nutrition, herbal medicines, behavioral advice, and sensitivity to seasonal and other cyclic influences, and is every bit as concerned with the health of the mind as with that of the body. Tibetan medicine's fascinating history, an evolution overseen by lamas and their regents, is recounted in this volume's fluid text, which accompanies an extraordinary set of medical illustrations and paintings. Gracefully delineated anatomical diagrams alternate with elegantly composed teaching paintings that present numerous methods of examination, diagnosis and divination, and therapeutic principles for a host of ailments, as well as guides to plants and minerals and their medicinal preparations and uses.
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- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Rizzoli (June 15, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0847820890
- ISBN-13: 978-0847820894
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 12 x 10 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
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