Traditional Tibetan medicine
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Traditional Tibetan medicine or Sowa Rigpa is the Tibetan medical system developed in the 8th century under King Trisong Detsen that incorporated the best international medical practices of that time.
Illustrations of Tibetan materia medica
Chagpori College of Medicine in 1938
Center for Oriental Medicine, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia
Ancient Tibetan Medicine Poster
Trisong Detsen
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Trisong Detsen was the 38th King of Tibet from 755 to 797, succeeding his father Tridé Tsuktsen. He was the second of the "Three Dharma Kings of Tibet" — Songtsen Gampo, Trisong Detsen, Ralpachen — ho
Traditional Tibetan medicine
…Tibetan medicine or Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan: གསོ་བ་རིག་པ། (bod lugs) Gso ba rig pa) is the Tibetan medical system developed in the 8th century under King Trisong Detsen that incorporated the best international medical practices of that time. The medical treatise Giyud Shi, or the Four Tantras, was then originally…
Trisong Detsen statue at Samye.