Source: tibet.cn

09-05-2007 20:47

The earliest colorful medical wall map is Tibtan coloful medical Tangka.

The whole series includes 79 pieces of Tangka with more than 1000 paintings. The pictures are painted on the gauze or linen and then the cloth was painted with gluwater and white earth. Next it was dipped into water and later polished by conch and other material. The picture must be mounted with valuable material. Every piece of Tangka is 80-100 centimeters long and 60-80 meters wide.

It is said that this great medical Tangka was painted by Sangji JIacuo , a high minister of the 5th Dalai Lama.At first, there were only 60 and later new content was added . Up to 1704, there were altoghther 79 Tangka .

The content of this series of medical tangka is wide including trditional Tibetan medical theory, some clinic disease, common Tibetan and Han medicine, points picture, medical instrument and so on. This series of Tangka is wide in content and colorful in design and although after more than 200 year, the color stays the same. The Tangka has the traditional Tibetan characteristics and the local features. From the 25th to 35th paintings, there are common Tibetan medicine such as animals, foliage,mineral totalling 384 sections. Some of these pictures are so vivid that we can judge the real objects according to the pictures. Among these material, some of them are special local products of tibet such as high mountain snow lotus. From this series of Tangka, we can see the history of Tibetan medicine.

It is said that this series of medical Tangka is the only one in the world and is the valuable legecy of the acient medicine. At the present it is collected by Lahsa Tibetan medicine Hospital and Norbu Linka.

 

Editor:Liu Fang