Dictionary of Tibetan Materia Medica (Bod kyi sman rdzas rig pa'i tshig mdzod): Yutok's Mind Ornament of a Hundred Thousand Herbs (G.yu thog sngo 'bum

Dictionary of Tibetan Materia Medica is a facsimile of what might have been the first Tibetan work of its kind. Originally handwritten in clear uchen script in the Indian Himalaya and published in 1991, this alphabetical dictionary documents an estimated three thousand unique ingredient names collected from the principal classical texts on medicine and pharmacognosy. Cross-referencing relatively unknown synonyms, Sanskrit-derived and other foreign terms as well as poetic and secret names to their respective main entries, it is an indispensable guide for the correct identification of the herbs, minerals, animal substances, and metals listed in traditional Tibetan medical formulas. Key quotations on their healing properties, subdivisions, and similar materia medica further increase the value of this pioneering lexical reference for practitioner-pharmacists and researchers of Sowa Rigpa's vast pharmacopoeia.

Author: Pasang Yonten Arya
Publisher: Bedurya Publications
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9782970146414
Language: Tibetan

About the Author
Arya, Pasang Yonten: - "Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya (Menrampa) is an internationally renowned senior practitioner, scholar, and teacher of Sowa Rigpa. He trained at Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala, where he graduated first of his class in 1977 and served as assistant pharmacist, professor, and college principal until 1989. After lecturing at the Central Institute for Buddhist Studies (Ladakh, 1989-1991), he moved to Europe, where he acted as guest professor in Tibetan medicine for DÄGfA (the German Medical Association for Acupuncture) for more than two decades. He co-founded and directs the New Yuthok Institute (Italy) as well as TME - Tibetan Medicine Education Center (Switzerland), through which he has instructed hundreds of students on clinical, yogic, and tantric knowledge and practices that balance the body-mind."Van Der Valk, Jan M. a.: - Dr. Jan M. A. van der Valk is a scholar-practitioner trained in the fields of biology (University of Leuven), ethnobotany and anthropology (University of Kent), and Tibetan studies (Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University). For his PhD dissertation in anthropology (2017) and currently as a postdoctoral researcher in the Austrian Science Fund project Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa and Buddhist Ritual (University of Vienna), he has mainly focused on how natural substances are transformed into potent medicines by working with traders, manufacturers, and materia medica experts in Switzerland, India and Nepal. Van der Valk has been learning Tibetan medicine under Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya since 2012, started his own herbal dispensary in Belgium in 2017, and is the editor in chief of Bedurya Publications.

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