TTM - History TTM-Grundlagen 1 History of Traditional Tibetan Medicine Important Events in the History of Tibetan Medicine • 657 B.C.: Tonpa Sherab Mevoche was born • 637 B.C.: Chepo Trishey was born • 309: Birth of Dung gi Thorchog • 629: Songtsen Gampo was enthroned • 755: Trisong Deutsen was enthroned • 708‐833: Senior Yuthok Yonten Gonpo • 765: First medical school in Kongpo Menlung • 958‐1057: Lotsawa Rinchen Sangpo • 1126‐1202: Junior Yuthok Yonten Gonpo 1 2
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TTM - History
TTM-Grundlagen 1
History of Traditional Tibetan Medicine
Important Events in the History of Tibetan Medicine
• 657 B.C.: Tonpa Sherab Mevoche was born
• 637 B.C.: Chepo Trishey was born
• 309: Birth of Dung gi Thorchog
• 629: Songtsen Gampo was enthroned
• 755: Trisong Deutsen was enthroned
• 708‐833: Senior Yuthok Yonten Gonpo
• 765: First medical school in Kongpo Menlung
• 958‐1057: Lotsawa Rinchen Sangpo
• 1126‐1202: Junior Yuthok Yonten Gonpo
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• 1395‐1475: Jangpa Namgyal Draksang
• 1439‐1475: Surkhar Nyamnyid Dorjee
• 1509‐1572: Surkhar Lodoe Gyalpo
• 1653‐1705: Desi Sangye Gyatso
• 1672: Deumar Geshe Tenzin Phuntsok
• 1696: Chokpori Medical College founded
• 1916: Men‐Tsee‐Khang, Lhasa, Tibet
• 1961: Men‐Tsee‐Khang, Dharamsala,India
Tonpa Sherab Mevoche (657 BC)
• He was born at the time of Lord Buddha at Volmo‐lungring (near Mount Kailash and Manasarovar lake), Shang Shung in South Western Tibet
• Legendary master and cultural founder of Bon religion and medical tradition
• Wrote many literatures on Bon medicine including ‘bum bzhi
• His son Ched‐bu Tri‐shey continued his lineage (637 BC)
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Lha‐tho‐tho‐ri nyen‐tsen (254‐374)
• 28th King of Tibet
• Started the first bridge of interaction with neighboring countries
• Lived for 120 years
• Two Indian physicians, Vijay Gaje and Bila Gaje visited Tibet and contributed to the health service in Tibet
• Birth of son Dhungi‐thor‐chok (309 ) to Vijay Gaje and Yid kyi Rolcha (princess of the King)
Dhun‐gi‐thor‐chok (309)
• He was a personal physician to the 28th and 29th King of Tibet, Tri‐nyen Sung‐tsen
• His successive sons continued the lineage and served as personal physicians to the kings of their times for several generations
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Thön‐mi Sam‐bho‐taSongtsen Gampo
King Song‐tsen Gam‐po (617‐698)
• 33rd King of Tibet
• Introduction of Tibetan script by his famous minister Thön‐mi Sam‐bho‐ta
• His queen Gya‐sa 'un‐shing Kong‐jo from China brought Chinese medical texts (641) one of which is men‐ched chen‐mo and later translated into Tibetan by the great scholars, the Chinese Hashang Mahadeva and the Tibetan Dharma Kokha
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Tri Ralpa Historic Gu‐ge Monastery
Trisong Detsen Samye Monastery
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King Tri‐song Deu‐tsen (742‐797)
• The 38th King
• Relations with neighboring countries strengthened
• The first ever medical conference held at Samye,Tibet
• Elder Yuthog Yonten Gonpo
Elder Yut‐hog Yon‐ten Gon‐po (708‐833)
• He was the representative of Tibet at the first international conference on Tibetan Medicine held at Samye
• Wrote the first draft of rgyud‐bzhi
• Established first monastic medical college called "Tanadug" at Kongpo Menlung in 765
• He lived for 125 years
• He travelled thrice to India and Nepal, and twice to China
• Wrote 18 supplements to rgyud‐bzhi
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Lang Dhar‐ma (803‐846)
• 42nd king of Tibet
• Civil war and Buddhism destroyed
• A few centuries of fragmented period of Tibet began
Lochen Rinchen Sangpo (958‐1056)
• Revived Buddhism and Tibetan Medicine in Tibet
• Translated Ashtanga Hridaya (Tib: yan‐lag brgyad‐pa'i snying‐po bsdus‐pa; Eng: Condensation of the Essences of Eight Branches) and its commentary, zla‐zer (Moonlight)