Tibetan MedicineVen. Rinpoche Rechung This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976. |
Contents
History of Tibetan Medicine | 8 |
Tibetan Medicine from the Second and Fourth | 29 |
Bibliography of European Works on Tibetan | 98 |
PART II | 141 |
Salt beer sunlight and women | 216 |
hDrerje Vajras journey to India | 219 |
gYuthogs first journey to India told by himself in detail | 227 |
gYuthogs second journey to India told by himself in detail | 229 |
gYuthogs marriage | 284 |
The first journey to Uḍḍiyāna | 285 |
A pilgrimage to China | 288 |
gYuthog teaches during the journey to Byayul | 290 |
Voyages to different heavens | 292 |
The second journey to Uḍḍiyāna | 295 |
The origin and tradition of gYuthogs medical texts | 296 |
A visit to the Tise Mountain | 303 |
gYuthogs third journey to India in detail | 246 |
gYuthog cures the Nāga Queen | 253 |
gYuthog and the rGyudbzhi | 255 |
Mineral springs | 257 |
Sacrificial offerings | 263 |
The gods in the body | 266 |
The quest for instruction on Paralysis and Rabies | 271 |
gYuthogs contest with the mÑāris doctor | 277 |
gYuthog receives instruction from an Incarnation of Mañjuśri | 280 |
The six qualifications of a good doctor | 282 |
Treatments | 304 |
A jealous doctor | 308 |
Taking the pulse | 310 |
Books written by gYuthog | 312 |
Instructions | 313 |
gYuthogs prophecy about the gYuthog lineage | 315 |
Consecrations | 318 |
gYuthogs departure to ITanasdug | 319 |
Glossary | 328 |
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