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The Buddha’s Art of Healing - Tibetan Paintings Rediscovered


John F Avdeon, Fernand Meyer, ND Bolsokhoeva, KM Gerasimova, Tamdin S Bradley
Rizzoli, New York, 1998
Rs 1,450

This lavishly illustrated book introduces the history and foundations of Tibetan medicine to the lay reader and explains the painted guide to the body, disease, diagnosis, treatment, and medical ethics. In addition, it contains an essay on the search and rescue in eastern Siberia in Stalin's Soviet Union for a set of paintings called The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine, and the subsequent establishment of centres of Tibetan medicine in Russia's metropolises.


LATEST ISSUE
638
(11 JAN 2013 - 17 JAN 2013)


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