Three Tibetan anatomical figures. Watercolour, 1904.
- Saṅs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho, Sde-srid, 1653-1705
- Date:
- 1904
- Reference:
- 574914i
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Description
Three human bodies showing different organs. Separate figures show the vertebral column, the solar plexus, and the system of channels connected with the five senses and with consciousness. Along the top, twelve great teachers of medicine
Publication/Creation
1904
Physical description
1 painting : watercolour, with black ink on white linen ; image 78.8 x 64 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Text in dbu can and in dbu med script
References note
L. A. Waddell, Lhasa and its mysteries, London 1905, p. 377
L. A. Waddell, 'Ancient anatomical drawings preserved in Tibet', Asiatic quarterly review, 1910, pp. 336-340
Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, p. 104, thankas banners and paintings no. 53
Yuri Parfionovitch, Fernand Meyer, and Gyurme Dorje, Tibetan medical paintings: illustrations to the blue beryl treatise of Sangye Gyamtso (1653-1705), New York: H.N. Abrams, Inc., 1992, p. 5 and no. 10
Reference
Wellcome Collection 574914i
Exhibitions note
Exhibited in “Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian medicine” at Wellcome Collection, 16 November 2017 – 8 April 2018
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