About Medicine Buddha Anywhere Artwork

The images used in this series are taken from the "Ornament to the Mind of Medicine Buddha: Blue Beryl Lamp Illuminating Four Tantras" or The Blue Beryl hangkas used as a memorization tool for traditional Tibetan doctors. 

Commissioned by the 5th Dalai Lama‘s Spiritual son Sangye Ghamtso (1645-1705), who founded Tibet’s first medical college and codified the country’s medical practices The Blue Beryl or the Atlas of Tibetan Medicine, are 19th century copies of a 17th century volume destroyed in 1959 which illustrate physical symptoms, disease, treatment, medicinal herbs & plant

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