Tibetan Medicine: An Introduction
In Tibet the Medicine Buddha is revered as the source of the
healing arts for it is through him that the teachings embodied
in the Four Medical Tantras, the basis of Tibetan medicine, came
into being.
As explained in the first of these Four Tantras, the Lapis Lazuli
Healing Master was once seated in meditation surrounded by an
assembly of four circles of disciples including divine physicians,
great sages, non-Buddhist gods and bodhisattvas, all of whom wished
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