Himalayan Art Resources

Charts: Blue Beryl Religious & Cultural Context

Blue Beryl Main Page

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Art History & Iconography Topics
- Blue Beryl Overview
- Blue Beryl Outline
- Tibetan Medicine Main Page
- Tibetan Medicine Glossary
- Health, Healing & Longevity
- Yutog Nyingtig Page
- Medical Doctors
- Desi Sanggye Gyatso (1653-1705)
- The Five Beryl (Vaidurya) Texts
- Confusions: Elder Yutog, Younger Yutog
- Others...

Jeff Watt [updated 3-2020]

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.

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).