As long as you have seen Mantang, you will sigh that it is a rare treasure in the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign traditional medicine systems. Even many Tibetologists in the world are honored to own an ancient mantang.
Tibetan medicine has 80 medical mantangs, all of which are scrolls depicting the ** medical system, systematically explaining the medical content of the "Four Medical Classics". For centuries, Mantang has been of extraordinary significance to the inheritance, education, and popularization of Tibetan medicine, as well as to those engaged in Tibetan medicine, and has always been the foundation of medical philosophy and Tibetan medicine education. Speaking of Mantang, we have to mention a famous Tibetan medicine doctor - Disi Sanji Gyatso.
Sort out the "Four Medical Classics" and compile "Blue Glass".
Tesi Sanji Gyatso was a well-known scholar of great accomplishment. As a young man, he studied medicine under his tutelage and studied medical classics with his hands. At the age of 27, he was appointed"Division"After taking up his post, in his busy schedule, he still never forgot to develop the Tibetan medical cause, and often wrote books and lectures without sleep or food.
He supervised the engraving of the Four Medical Codex three times. When the third edition of the "Four Medical Codexes" was engraved in the Tang Dynasty, it was found that there were many problems in it, such as moving the order of the chapters without authorization, typos, missing words, missing words, etc.
He believes that the "Four Medical Classics" occupies an important position in the history of Tibetan medicine, but the doctors of the past dynasties have interpreted its content somewhat arbitrarily, and even distorted the original meaning, which is very disrespectful to the ancients. This was also the main motivation for Sanji Gyatso to later write "Blue Glass".
As soon as "Blue Glass" came out, it had a huge impact, and later generations compared it to the key to open the golden lock of "Four Medical Classics". It is revered as a must-read reference book and standard annotation for studying the "Four Medical Classics", and it is still a primer for studying this classic medical work.
Vigorously establish colleges and develop Tibetan medicine education
The inheritance of ancient medicine mainly relied on the teaching of master and apprentice, and Tibetan medicine is no exception, mainly relying on the transmission of master and apprentice. The introduction of medical knowledge to students in the form of schools was relatively late in the traditional medical system.
At the end of 1643, Drepung Monastery's "Medical Zhuo Panlin" was soon closed due to lack of experience in running schools. The fifth ** never forgot about this and looked forward to running a decent medical school.
In 1695, the Disi Sanji Gyatso finally fulfilled the ambition of the fifth emperor and founded the Lizhong Institute of Medicine in Yaowang Mountain, southwest of Lhasa, with the aim of training Tibetan medicine professionals. The institute stipulates that both monks and lay people can be enrolled, and has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents for the development of Tibetan medicine.
*Traditional medicine has always emphasized that medicine and medicine are not separated, and learning and practice are combined. Therefore, students of the college should also understand pharmacology while learning medical theory. It is stipulated that every year students are required to collect medicinal herbs in person so that they can master the knowledge of collecting and identifying herbal medicines.
He presided over the drawing of Tibetan medicine Mantang
In the long-term research and teaching, in order to enable the apprentices to better learn and understand the content of the "Four Continuations of Medicine", under the auspices of Dishi Sangyatso, he gathered famous Tibetan painters to draw 79 of the "Eight Colorful Wall Charts of the Four Medical Canons", and later drew a map of the famous Tibetan doctors of the past dynasties.
This set of medical atlases depicts the basic theories of Tibetan medicine, and records in detail the anatomical structure and physiological functions of the human body, the causes, pathologies and symptoms of diseases, the diagnostic methods and principles of diseases, etc., and is the most complete Tibetan medicine teaching materials preserved so far.
It is safe to say that the appearance of "Mantang" was earlier than the human anatomy of the Italian painter and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century, and even in today's advanced science, this drawing tradition of Tibetan medicine still has scientific value and vitality.
This set of Mantang is considered to be the most complete and comprehensive blueprint of the existing Tibetan medicine wall chart, which is rich and easy to understand. It is not only a treasure in the Tibetan culture of our country, but also a treasure in the treasure house of medicine in the motherland. It is not only unique in the history of medicine in China, but also rare in the history of medicine in the world.