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Explanation to sDe srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho’s Man ngag lhan thabs dealing with medical terminology, compounding, formulaes, etc. (lCags po ri print)

Title: ༄༅། །བདུད་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་པ་གསང་བ་མན་ངག་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཐབས་ཟུག་རྔུའི་ཚ་གདུང་སེལ་བའི་ཀཏྤཱུ་ར་དུས་མིན་འཆི་ཞགས་གཅོད་པའི་རལ་གྲི་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གསང་སྨན་གབ་ཚིག་ཞལ་ཤེས་སྦྱོར་ཚད་སོགས་མ་སྦས་ལྷུག་པར་བཤད་པ་བདུད་རྩིའི་གཏེར་བུམ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་གཏད་རྒྱའི་རྒྱ་མདུད་བཀྲོལ་བའི་རིན་ཆེན་གསེར་གྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། [bdud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba man ngag yon tan rgyud kyi lhan thabs zug rngu'i tsha gdung sel ba'i kat+pu ra dus min 'chi zhags gcod pa'i ral gri zhes bya ba'i gsang sman gab tshig zhal shes sbyor tshad sogs ma sbas lhug par bshad pa bdud rtsi'i gter bum mkha' 'gro'i gtad rgya'i rgya mdud bkrol ba'i rin chen gser gyi lde mig ces bya ba bzhugs so//]

Object biography

Drongshar, Tsering, Mathias Fermer and Uwe Niebuhr. Annotated Catalogue of the Text Collection of René Nebesky-Wojkowitz (1923–1959) at the Weltmuseum Wien. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien. (forthcoming 2024).

Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René. 1958. "Tibetan blockprints and manuscripts in possession of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna." Archiv für Völkerkunde 13, 195–196: No. 134.475b; Title: bDud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba ma ngag yon tan rgyud kyi lhan thabs zug rngu'i tsha gdung sel ba'i katpūra dus min 'chi zhags gcod pa'i ral gri zhes bya ba'i gsang sman gab tshig zhal shes sbyor tshad sogs sbas lhug par bshad pa bdud rtsi'i gter bum mkha' 'gro'i gtad rgya'i rgya mdud dkrol pa' rin chen gser gyi lde mig ces bya ba bzhugs so; Abbreviated title: rGya mdud; Blockprint, 55 folios; size 50,5x8,5 cms; As reported by my Tibetan informants, this is a very rare book. The blocks of this work which, according to the colophone, are the property of the monastery lCags ri rigs byed 'gro phan ling, the foremost school of lamaistic medicine, are kept under the seal of the Tibetan government. The printing of a new copy of this book may only be undertaken with the permission of the Tibetan authorities. Such permission is very difficult to obtain and involves the payment of a considerable fee. The reason for the close control of the distribution of this book is the fact that the text contains numerous secret medical traditions whose knowledge should remain limited to a small group of selected persons. The rGya mdud is an important supplement to the above-mentioned lHan thabs. It explains in the same sequence observed in the lHan thabs, the cryptic and abbreviated expressions found in the latter work. It gives further information on the iconography of several deities who stand in relation to lamaistic medicine and it also adds some material which had been handed down by oral tradition. Considerable space is devoted to the use which various substances, otherwise applied in Tantric practices, may also find in medicine. Such substances are according to the rGya mdud, the heart of a middle-aged person which has been cut out by means of a knife (dar ma'i gri snying), the skull and marrow of a person who has committed suicide (rang shi'i thod pa dang rkang mar), the uterine blood of a widow (yugs mo'i mngal khrag or yugs sa'i mngal khrag), the menstrual fluid [196] of a young woman whose ulerus is free from any disease (bud med gzhon nu ma mngal nad med pa'i zla mtshan), the flesh of a child sprung from an incestuous union (nal bu'i sha), and the flesh of a middle-aged man who has never cohabitated with a woman (mi dar ma bud med la ma spyad pa'i sha chen). [n46: Regarding the way in which some of these substances are used in ceremonies of Tibetan "black magic" see Nebesky-Wojkowitz: Oracles and Demons of Tibet, pp. 481–502.]

Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René de. 1956a. Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities. The Hague: Mouton: -

Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René. 1953e. "Neuerwerbungen aus Sikkim und Tibet." Archiv für Völkerkunde 8, 271: Die Neuerwerbungen der Tibet-Sammlung umfassen weiters zwanzig verschiedene tibetische Drucke und Manuskripte, bei denen es sich in der Mehrheit um seltene Werke handelt. Unter ihnen wären besonders zu erwähnen: [...] weiters sechs verschiedene medizinische Werke—darunter das als brGyud bzhi bezeichnete Sammelwerk der tibetischen Medizin mit zwei seltenen Kommentaren, zu deren Druck jeweils eine Sondererlaubnis der tibetischen Regierung eingeholt werden muß—[...].

Inventory of the Weltmuseum Wien, Post XIII/1953: Drucke über deren Inhalt vom Sammler keine näheren Angaben gemacht wurden. Es handelt sich (mit Ausnahme von Nr. 470) um tibetische Bücher aus handgeschöpftem Papier, die im Blockdruckverfahren mit tibetischen Schriftzeichen bedruckt sind und religiöse Texte beinhalten; Maße: Nr. 475b; Blockdruck 52x9 cm mit zwei Holzdeckeln.

Shipping list, René Nebesky-Wojkowitz & Karl Anton Nowotny, 28 May 1954: Außerdem vorhanden: 12 Bündel Blockdrucke, 2 Bündel Manuskripte, 1 gebundenes Manuskript [...] 2 Bündel Blockdrucke, 1 Bündel Manuskripte waren nicht bei der Sammlung aufbewahrt und sind ebenso vorhanden.

Inventory list, René Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Kalimpong, 15 December 1951: -