The Blue Beryl is a 17th century commentary to he 11th century Four Medical Tantras text. The Blue Beryl paintings are a set of 79 educational explanatory compositions created and commissioned by the 3rd Desi Sanggye Gyatso (1653-1705), regent to the 5th Dalai Lama. The first fifteen of the Blue Beryl paintings have a register at the top which presents the four topics of [1] Medicine Buddha, [2] Four Tantras Lineage, [3] Yutog Nyingtig Lineage and the [4] Deities and Protectors of the Yutog Nyingtig. The image here is created by layering the strips of register found at the top of the first fifteen compositions into a single image. The strips have been combined to make it easier to follow the sequence and read the name inscriptions. (Only the first fifteen compositions of the set have a top register).
