Himalayan Art: Charts: Blue Beryl Main Page (Medical Paintings, All)

The Blue Beryl (vaidurya ngonpo) medical charts are a set of paintings based on the text of the same name compiled and edited by the Desi Sanggye Gyatso in the 17th century. It is thought that there are several original sets numbering approximately 85 paintings each. Each painting represents a single chapter from the Blue Beryl. From the Blue Beryl sets recorded on the HAR website it can be seen that since the 17th century onward the total number of paintings has been reduced by doubling up and sometimes tripling up on chapters thus condensing them into single paintings. The overall result is various painting sets of unknown number but definitely reduced in size from the original 85 or so paintings. More research needs to be done to determine if there is an accepted system for reducing the overall number or if it is up to the artist and patron to create a Blue Beryl set according to there own resources.

Painting Sets:
- Set 1 (Private Collection)
- Set 2 (RMA)
- Set 3 (Bod kyi thangka)
- Set 4 (Private Collection)
- Set 5 (RMA)
- Set 6 (RMA)
- Set 7 (RMA)
- Set 8 (RMA)
- Set 9 (Private Collection)
- Set 10 (Buryiat)
- Set 11 (Wisdom Calendar Set)
- Set 12 (American Museum of Natural History)
- Other Sets....

Jeff Watt 5-2007

See the publication: Tibetan Medical Paintings, Illustrations to the Blue Beryl Treatise of Sangye Gyamtso Edited by Yuri Parfionovitch, Gyurme Dorje and Fernand Meyer. Serindia Publications 1992. A complete visual documentation - with 8,400 individual images and inscriptions on 77 thangkas - for the education and training of physicians in the many themes, subjects and properties of Tibetan medicine, Tibetan Medical Paintings presents a hitherto unknown set of paintings found in Buryiatia that illustrate a famous seventeenth century medical treatise.

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