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• Source Texts and Commentaries
• Indic Source Texts

stangahrdaya, collections of Buddhist sutras, etc.

• bdud rtsi sman gyi mdo chog [W2DB4624]
  Collection of rituals focussing upon the Medicine Buddhas and healing (1 vol)
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• sbyor ba brgya pa dang yan lag brgyad pa'i snying po bsdus pa sogs [W00PD1011354]
  Collection of classical Indo-Buddhist works on ayuvedic medicine (1 vol)
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• yan lag brgyad pa'i snying bsdus kyi rang 'grel [W1PD9]
  Autocommentary on a classic work of Indian medicine by the master Vagbhata (1 vol)
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• Commentaries on Indic Sources
• yan lag brgyad pa'i snying po'i rnam 'grel tshig don zla zer [W00PD1011353]
  Detailed commentary on the Sanskrit medical treatise, Vagbhata's Astangahrdaya by Candranandana (2 vol)
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• yan lag brgyad pa'i snying po bsdus pa [W15588]
  15th century treatise on medical practice; written by the lord of LatoJang on the basis of the Astangahrdaya (1 vol)
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• Four Medical Tantras
• grwa thang rgyud bzhi [W29627]
  transcription of one of the older printed versions of the rgyud bzhi (1 vol)
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• rgyud bzhi (zung cu ze par ma) [W30137]
  Text of the Four Tibetan Medical Tantras (Rgyu bzhi) from the printing at the Zungcu Ze Tibetan-Mongolian Printing House in Jehol (1 vol)
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• sde dge rgyud bzhi [W2DB4628]
  Typeset redaction of the 1733 Derge cutting of the blocks of the Four Medical Tantras; these blocks were carved on the basis on an earlier edition from Lhasa and were edited by Shuchen Tsultrim Rinchen (1 vol)
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• rgyud bzhi (lcags po ri par ma) [W30134]
  The 1888 Lhasa edition of the Four Medical tantras; the blocks were carved at the Chagpori Medical College in Lhasa (1 vol)
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• Commentaries on the Four Tantras
• 'bum nag gsal sgron [W29983]
  Two works on medicine from the ancient period; the first is a commentary on the second of the medical tantras, the bshad rgyud; written by the 12th century Sumton Yeshe Zung, a student of Yuthog, the Younger (1 vol)
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• bshad rgyud kyi 'grel pa bdud rtsi'i chu rgyun [W15590]
  Commentary on the Bshad rgyud, second of the four medical tantras; this commentary was written by the ruler of the Jang myriarchy, Jangdag Namgyal Tragzang (1395-1475) (1 vol)
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• bshad rgyud kyi 'grel chen dri med kun gsal [W00EGS1017511]
  16th century commentary on the second of the four medical tantras of the Tbetan tradition; written by Sonam Yeshe Gyaltsen, the court physician of the Rinpung rulers and son of Mii Nyima Tongwa Donden (1 vol)
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• rgyud bzhi'i 'bru 'grel [W00EGS1017463]
  syllable by syllable commentary on the four medical tantras (2 vol)
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• mes po'i zhal lung [W30438]
  Major commentary on the Four Medical Tantras of the Zurkar school; begun by Zurkar Lodro Gyalpo and completed by Darmo Menrampa Lozang Chodrak and Namling Panchen Konchog Chodrak (2 vol)
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• rgyud bzhi'i gsal byed baiDUrya sngon po [W1PD3]
  Late 17th century commentary on the Four Medical Tantras (Rgyud bzhi); written by the great regent of Tibet Desi Sangye Gyatso (2 vol)
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• gling sman pa'i rgyud bzhi'i dka' 'grel [W2DB4625]
  Commentary on the Four Medical Tantras by an 18th century physician from Kham, Lingmen Tashi Bum (b. 1726); includes other medical texts by the same author (1 vol)
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• phyi rgyud kyi 'grel pa mun sel sgron me [W29106]
  18th century commentary on the fourth of the Tibetan medical tantras, the Chima gyu; nothing is known as yet about the author, Ngawang Kongchog Tengyal (1 vol)
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• legs bshad gser gyi thur ma [W1GS9]
  17th century collection of commentariesthe Second and Fourth of the Four Medical Tantras by Darmo Menrampa Lozang Chodrag, a scholar contemporary of the 5th Dalai Lama (1 vol)
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• rgyud bzhi'i brda' bkrol rnam rgyal a ru ra'i phreng ba'i mdzes rgyan [W29482]
  Explanation of difficult terms in the Gyuzhi, the four medical tantras, by an 18th century Mongol author (1 vol)
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• gsung 'bum/_tshe rnam [W29701]
  Collected writings of Troru Tsenam, physician and teacher (11 vol)
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• Early Works
• sman dpyad zla ba'i rgyal po [W30387]
  (1 vol)
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• sman dpyad zla ba'i rgyal po [W29577]
  Classic Tibetan medical work supposedly translated from Sanskrit: this is a reproduction of a Derge print (1 vol)
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• snyan brgyud be bum nag po dang man ngag rin chen gter mdzod [W29093]
  Two works on traditional Tibetan medicine; the first being an ancient work that follows a system seemingly not based on the Indic system; the second two are by one Urgyan Lophel (1 vol)
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• 'bum khu tshur [W1PD5]
  Three collections of medical prescriptions connected with the name of Bharo Chagdum (1 vol)
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• gtsang stod zin thig dang yang thig [W2DB13635]
  Collection of recipes for medical treatment by the 11th century Tsangto Darma Gonpo (1 vol)
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• slob dpon pad 'byung gi sman yig gces btus [W1GS10]
  collection of medical and veterinary practices attributed to padmasambhava (1 vol)
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• sman dpyad rin chen 'dus pa a tsa ra'i man ngag [W1GS57624]
  (1 vol)
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• cha lag bco brgyad [W1GS11]
  collection of medical texts (1 vol)
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• bu don ma [W29484]
  Collection of medical formulae; attributed to Yutog, the Younger (1 vol)
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• g.yu thog sman yig phyogs bsgrigs [W2DB4629]
  Collection of works attributed to Yuthog the Elder; includes a treatise parallel to the Man ngag rgyud (1 vol)
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• Collections of Medical Instructions

Included here are text collections containing special instructions for treating various ailments and conditions

• 'brong rtse'i be'u bum dkar po [W25101]
  Collection of esoteric medical prescriptions and magical formulae for the alleviation of various ailments. Collected and arrauged by Drongtse Lhase Gyatsho 14th century (1 vol)
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• 'brong rtse be'u bum [W1PD2]
  15th century collection of methods for medical treatment by a teacher from Tsang province of the TAR (1 vol)
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• man ngag yig chung sna tshogs [W29105]
  16th century collection of instructions on treatments and medical preparations compiled by Gongmen Konchog Pendar (1 vol)
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• phyag rdor gso rig phyogs bsgrigs [W1GS8]
  Collection of medical recipes and practices of a 16th century Tibetan physician, Chagdor Gonpo; includes another text by an upholder of the lineage of Situ Panchen (1 vol)
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• man ngag bye ba ring bsrel [W29481]
  Collection of recipes for diagnosis and treatment by the famous physcian Zurkar Nyamnyi Dorje; edited from the Derge blockprint carved at the instance of Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1 vol)
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• man ngag bka' rgya ma [W00EGS1017462]
  Collected medical prescriptions and magical healing practices by a 17th century physician at the court of the 5th Dalai Lama (1 vol)
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• gso dpyad kyi lag len dgos 'dod kun 'byung [W15925]
  17th century medical work of the Lhunding tradition; the author, Dudtsi Gyurme, was the personal physician of Taranatha (1575-1634) (1 vol)
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• gser mchan rnam bkra gan mdzod [W1GS2]
  Golden annotations to the treatise on medical investigations and presecriptions by Darmo Menrampa, a 17th century physician attached to the court of the 5th Dalai Lama (1 vol)
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• man ngag rin chen gter mdzod dang lde mig [W2DB4623]
  17th century manual of instructions for medical treatments by Ngawang Konchog Tengyal, a savant of Kham (1 vol)
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• man ngag lhan thabs dang lde mig [W1PD4]
  Manual of methods and magical rituals for medical treatment by the great regent of Tibet, Sangye Gyatso; this collection includes as well three works explaining the meaning of the terminology and secret vocabulary used in the work (1 vol)
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• man ngag yon tan rgyud kyi lhan thabs zug rngu'i tsha gdun sel ba'i katpu ra dus min 'chi zhag gcod pa'i ral gri [W23739]
  Medical recipes and methods for treatment by Desi Sangye Gyatso (1653-1705) (1 vol)
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• phan bde'i bsil zer spro ba'i zla gsar [W30436]
  18th century collection of methods for treatment of various ailments written by a member of the Palpung court, Karma Ngeleg Tendzin (1 vol)
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• man ngag rgyud dang phyi ma rgyud kyi lhan thabs kyi tshul du bkod pa phan bde'i nor bu'i bang mdzod [W29982]
  18th century collection of instructions for medical practice arranged according to the third and fourth tantras of the Four Medical Tantras; written by one of the nephews of Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1 vol)
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• man ngag rin chen 'byung gnas [W2DB13639]
  Collected medical instructions of the 4th Tsenpo Nomon Han Jampal Chokyi Tendzin Trinley (1789-1838); includes explanations of the secret expressions by his student, Jampal Tsondru (1 vol)
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• 'ju mi pham gyi sman yig gces bsdus [W00EGS1018126]
  Collection of teachings on medical practice by Ju Mipam Gyatso (1 vol)
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• Manuals

Collections of texts including commentaries on medical classics and practical instructions by specific doctors and their students

• gsung sgros phan byed rig pa'i mdzod [W17836]
  Collected medical instructions stemming from the Kagyu master Gampopa (1 vol)
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• gtsang sman ye shes bzang po'i gsung rtsom gces bsdus [W1PD53272]
  (1 vol)
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• gtsang sman pa'i sman yig phyogs bsgrigs [W2DB4621]
  Collection of 18th century medical texts, written by a doctor associated with Labrang Tashi Kyil (1 vol)
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• nyi thang sman mkhyen gyi sman yig dang nam mkha' seng ge'i sman rtsis [W2DB13644]
  Medical manuals by 17th century author Nyithang Lozang Gyatso (b. 1590) and writings by the Amdo writer Namkha Sengge (1712-1780) (1 vol)
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• de'u dmar gso rig gces btus [W2DB13637]
  Collected works of the famous physician and craftsman of Konjo, Deumar Geshe Tendzin Phuntso (b. 1672); includes works on the history of medicine and silpasastra (2 vol)
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• sum pa'i sman yig phyogs bsgrigs [W2DB13640]
  Collection of medical works (manual) by Sumpa Khenpo Yeshe Paljor (1704-1788), famous polymath from Inner Mongolia (1 vol)
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• lab skyabs mgon gyi sman yig [W2DB13642]
  Two 19th century Gelug medical manuals by Lab Kyabgon (b. 1832) and the 3rd Tsendrog Nomon Han Jampal Tendzin (b. 1775) (1 vol)
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• cha har dge bshes kyi sman yig [W2DB4627]
  Two medical works by two Inner Mongolian medical doctors (1 vol)
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• nad sna tshogs zhi ba'i sngags bdud rtsi'i char pa [W2DB13641]
  Collected writings of the savant Jamgon Mipham Gyatso on medicine, astrology, prognostication, and grammar (1 vol)
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• mkhyen rab nor bu'i sman yig gces btus [W2DB13643]
  Two recent medical manuals, the first the work of Khyenrab Norbu (1883-1952), master of the Lhasa Mentsi Khang; the second the work of Mayang Tamdrin Kyab and his students (1 vol)
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• fundamentals of tibetan medical practice : lha-sa sman-rtsis-khan prints of works by mkhyen-rab-nor-bu, 'ju mi-pham, chos-grags-rgya-mtsho, and 'jam-mgon kon-sprul [W30138]
  Five works used as texts in the Lhasa Mentsi Khang for Tibetan medical practice (1 vol)
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• rnga ba bod rigs rang skyong khul gyi rig gnas lo rgyus dpyad yig bdams bsgrigs/ deb dgu pa [W1PD76619]
  (1 vol)
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• Tantric Physiology

Here are included works and their commentaries discussing the relationship of the motility, channels and chakra, to the physical body

• zab mo nang don gyi rtsa 'grel [W00PD1011352]
  On the nature of the tantric body: a work by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje with a commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul Lotro Taye (1 vol)
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• gsang chen thabs lam nyer mkho rnal 'byor snying nor [W14130]
  collection of texts on Tibetan Buddhist tantric yogic practices; represents teachings from all traditions (1 vol)
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• Works of Materia

medica, pharmacology and medical preparations (sman sbyor), and substitution instructions

• sngo 'bum sman gyi gter mdzod [W00EGS1017863]
  Classical collection of texts on the Tibetan pharmacopeia; includes the Sman ming rgya mtsho of Karmapa Ranjung Dorje (1 vol)
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• shel gong shel phreng [W1PD6]
  Verse work, with prose autocommentary, on Tibetan materia medica; written by the famous Deumar Geshe Tendzin Puntso (b. 1672) (1 vol)
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• srid gsum gtsug rgyan si tu chos kyi 'byung gnas kyi zhal lung dngul chu btso chen ril bu'i sbyor sde zab bdun bdud rtsi'i thig le [W30144]
  Treatise on the use of mercury pellets in Tibetan medicine according to the tradition of Situ Panchen; reproduced from a Derge print prepared at the order of Yeshe Donden by the ruler Tsewang Dudul (1 vol)
• gso rig sman gyi ro nus ngos 'dzin gsal ston phyogs sgrig rin chen sgron me [W1GS49280]
  Collection of ten sngo 'bum or 'khrungs dpe of Tibetan medicine; includes two photoreprints of the first of the ten (1 vol)
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• rgyun spyod bod sman thang phye ril bu gsum gyi sbyor sde dang lag len gyi skor brjod pa kun phan bdud rtsi'i chu rgyun [W1GS55180]
  Practical instructions on the preparation of medicinal infusions, powders, and pills in Tibetan medicine (1 vol)
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• mes po'i dgongs rgyan [W2DB4626]
  Treatise by Darmo Menrampa on the efficacy of medicinal substances; appended Kunkyen Pema Karpo's commentary on the Rgyud bzhi and smaller works by Jamyang Tendzin and Gungtang Konchog Tenpai Dronme (1 vol)
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• dri med shel gong dang dri med shel phreng dang lag len gces bsdus [W23762]
  Two classics of Tibetan medical science by the 18th century Dilmar Geshe Tendzin Puntso; original publication from often unclear blockprints from the Chagpori in Lhasa (1 vol)
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• gso rig zin tig yang tig [W29478]
  Three separate late 19th century formularies of medical prescriptions by Jamgon Kongtrul Lotro Taye and followers of his tradition (1 vol)
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• sman sbyor gces bsdus snying nor [W2DB13638]
  (1 vol)
• Collections of Ritual and Magical Practices

Including bcud len. the consumption of magical syllables (za yig), and the like

• g.yu thog snying thig [W29293]
  Collection of texts concerned with the practice of the Yutok Nyingtig teaching used in medical practice; this edition is based on the Chagpori prints (1 vol)
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• g.yu thog snying thig [W2DB13636]
  Collection of rituals for the practice of the Yutog Nyingtig; these works are the work of the 5th Dalai Lama, Yuthog Yonten Gonpo, Khamnyon, Jamgon Kongtrul, etc. (1 vol)
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• Reference works

Includes Biographies, directories of medical practitioners, and dictionaries

• g.yu thog gsar rnying gi rnam thar [W13868]
  Biographical accounts of the two masters of the medical tradition in Tibet, Yuthog the Elder and Yuthog the Junior (1 vol)
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• bod gyi sman pa rim byon gyi rnam thar phyogs bsgrigs [W17722]
  Biographies of famous individuals in the transmission of the Tibetan medical system (1 vol)
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• Histories and General Surveys

Included here works belonging to the genre of chos 'byung and khog dbub

• zur mkhar ba'i shes bya'i khog 'bugs [W1GS5]
  Comprehensive treatise on the history and structure of Tibetan medical practice; written by the 16th century master of the Zurkhar tradition Lodro Gyalpo (1 vol)
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• gso ba rig pa'i khog phubs legs bsdus zhig dang rtsa ba thugs kyi rgyud kyi 'grel pa 'bru snon shin tu legs pa [W00EGS1016719]
  Survey of Tibetan medical practice by the17th century physician of the Dechen Chokhor Monastery (1 vol)
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• gso rig sman gyi khog 'bugs [W29485]
  detailed history and survey of the medical literature and practice in tibet (1 vol)
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• Localized Manuals of Special Traditions

Here are included works specific to geographic locales, and traditions

• tshe dbang brgya rtsa [W2DB4622]
  Medical treatises by followers of the Zurkhar and Kyempa tradition (1 vol)
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• rgyud lung man ngag du ma'i bcud chung slob ma'i don du zin thig dang bu la gdams pa yang thig [W00EGS1017628]
  Important collection of medical methods for diagnosis and Kyirong in Mangyul (1 vol)
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• man ngag gser bre ma [W17713]
  Two 13th century collections of treasured instructions on medical practice and magic by masters of the Drangti lineage of physicians connected with the Sakya court (1 vol)
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• rgyud lung man ngag du ma'i bcud chung slob ma'i don du zin thig dang bu la gdams pa yang thig [W00EGS1017628]
  Important collection of medical methods for diagnosis and Kyirong in Mangyul (1 vol)
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• sman gzhung phyogs bsgrigs [W00KG09213]
  Collection of twelve small medical works by various traditional ayurvedic doctors from the Nangchen area of eastern Tibet (1 vol)
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• Bonpo Medical Texts
• gso rig 'bum bzhi [W1GS4]
  Early Bon treatise on Tibetan medicine (1 vol)
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• zhang bod gso rig dga' ston rol pa'i rgyan [W30435]
  Treatises on the methods and practice of Tibetan medicine by a recent master of the Bon tradition (1 vol)
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• Modern Tibetan Medicine

Included here are works teaching a synthesis of allopathic and Tibetan medicine

• Questions, Responses, and Polemic
• dris lan legs bshad snang ba gsar pa [W2DB4630]
  17th century responses to questions on medical practice by the famed Drukpa Kagyu master, Mipham Geleg Namgyal (1 vol)
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• Veterinary Medicine

Examination and treatment of horses and other domestic animals, etc.

• bod kyi rta'i gso dpyad gzhung lugs bdams bsgrigs [W30280]
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