DOI: 10.30792/2949-5768-2024-8-69-76
ABOUT THE PUBLICATION OF THE ATLAS OF TIBETAN MEDICINE
Vanchikova Tsymzhit Purbuevna ‒ Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science, Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia).
E-mail: vanchikova_ts@mail.ru.
The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine (ATM), according to the Dalai Lama, is one of the most significant achievements of the rich heritage of Tibetan medicine, one of the most valuable contributions of Tibet to the modern world. It visually interprets the basic data of the Tibetan medical system set out in its canon «Rgyud bzhi» (Four medical tantras) and in the voluminous commentaries to the canon «The Garland of the Blue beryl» (Baidurya sngon po). As far as it concerns the preserved sets of the ATM (sman thang) it is known only about: 1) two sets of Atlas stored in China (the Lhasa Complete Set of Atlas, at the Commission for Cultural Relics of Tibet in Norbulingka, and the second complete set in Mendzikan (sman-rtsi-khang, now the Hospital of Traditional Tibetan Medicine of Tibet); 2) ATM kept in the National Museum of Buryatia. There are many publications of ATM, in the article an attempt to reveal and analyze these publications is done.
