17th Century

Title
gso ba rig pa’i bstan bcos sman bla’i dgongs rgyan rgyud bzhi’i gsal byed bE D’ur sngon po’i malli ka zhes bya ba
Author Desi Sangye Gyatso (sde srid sangs rgyas rgya mtsho, 1653-1705)
Reprint bod ljong mi dmangs dpe skrun khang, Lhasa, 1982
Pages
Vol. 1: 734p
Vol. 2: 735-1468p
Electronic Version
Vol. 1: 1.62 MB
Vol. 2: 1.60 MB
Comments A commentary on the Gyushi in two volumes, written AD 1687-88, on request of Dar mo sman rams pa, who was Sangye Gyatso’s teacher. This commentary is based among others on the previous sources of the 15th and 16th century mentioned above. The Indian reprint was prepared from a wooden block print from Derge (sde dge).

Title
gso rig sman gyi khog ’bugs
Full Title dpa ldan gso ba rig pa’i khog ’bugs legs bshad bE D’ur ya’i me long drang srong dgyes pa’i dga’ ston
Author Desi Sangye Gyatso (sde srid sangs rgyas rgya mtsho, 1653-1705), completed AD 1702/1703(?)
Reprint
  1. Sonam W. Tashigang, Leh, Ladakh 1970
  2. kan su’u mi rigs dpe skrun khang; Lanzhou 1982
  3. bod gzhung sman rtsi khang, Dharamsala, 1994
Pages xii, 573p (1994 reprint)
Electronic Version 717 KB (1994 version)
Comments Sangye Gyatso’s famous khog ’bugs is a history of medicine in 36 chapters, which places the development of the two Tibetan medical schools byang lugs and zur lugs in the context of a general history of Tibet. It discusses the development of medicine in India the history of medicine in Tibet from the 8th to the 17th century, and includes biographies of many important medical practitioners.

Title
sman ngag lhan thabs
Full Title man ngag yon tan rgyud kyi lhan thabs zug rngu’i tsha gdung sel ba’i katpü ra dus min ’chi zhags gcod pa’i ral gri
Author Desi Sangye Gyatso (sde srid sangs rgyas rgya mtsho, 1653-1705) ; composed from 1691 onwards and completed in 1696.
Reprint
  1. mtsho sdon mi rigs dpe skrun khang, Ziling 1993 (3rd edition)
  2. Lhasa, s. n. ff. 288. lcags po ri rig byed ’gro phan gling blocks [LC Class: R127.5.S265 1950z]
Pages 3, 10, 667p (1993 reprint)
Electronic Version to be completed (1993 version)
Comments The collection is a guidebook for practising physicians, has 133 chapters, and only refers to the third part of the Gyushi. Willhelm Alexander Unkrig in his “Introduction” to Korvin Krasinki’s Die Tibetische Medizinphilosophie (Zürich 1953) translated the title as “The additional methods of the basis of the advantages of the quintessence of the science of healing, the eight-fold secret instructions - the camphor for the removal of the hot disease of piercing pain, the sword that cuts the thread of an untimely death.” Unkrig pointed out that the misspelled katpûra, or k’adbuura, seems to have entered all bilingual editions, and what is actually meant is the Sanskrit karpûra, meaning camphor. In the lhan thabs, the dharani or magical spells are primarily taken into account as the most effective methods, and are described in detail, at times with illustrations of the respective amulets along with instructions for their manufacturing. Apart from the enumeration of chapters, there is another classification, which divides diseases into sixteen groups.