tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538848421676038704.post5256360510008373466..comments2023-06-18T08:39:27.736-04:00Comments on Bhaisajya: Bon Origins of Tibetan MedicineMalcolmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565211105434785983noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538848421676038704.post-31791989705365648162008-12-06T09:18:00.000-05:002008-12-06T09:18:00.000-05:00Hi Dan:Thanks for your input and encouragement. Th...Hi Dan:<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your input and encouragement. There is a Tibetan doctor at Harvard, Yang Ga, who has a lot of interesting ideas about the origins of the four tantras (having taken to western text critical methodology in spades) and he feels that the Bonpo recension of the four tantras, the 'bum bzhi i.e. the Four Volumes, is actually quite late. So, it is some interest to me to see when and how the accounts of bpyad bu khri shes evolved.Malcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17565211105434785983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538848421676038704.post-19763107029180788582008-12-05T10:45:00.000-05:002008-12-05T10:45:00.000-05:00Just to say that the Diagnostic Probe Child (Dpyad...Just to say that the Diagnostic Probe Child (Dpyad Bu) Khri-shes is a son of Lord Shenrab in the 'Summary Scripture' (Mdo-'dus), which is the shorter and (some believe) earliest of the 3 main Shenrab-biographical scriptures. And he is involved in medicine there, too, as you can see from this quote:<BR/><BR/>de la ston pas bka' rtsal pa / nyon cig DPYAD BU KHRI SHES dag / spyi na sems can bdag thob med pa nas da lta bar du ma rig ma rtog 'khrul pas na / bdag gshen rab ston pa lan chags byang / dbang po sgo bsal lan chag 'jal / nyon mongs brgyad khri rtsal sbyang pa / sems kyi zug ngu nad zug med / a bo yab cig gshen rab yin / [p. 224] a ni skye ba med pa yin / bo ni 'gag pa med pa yin / na ba 'khor ba'i sdug bsnal yin / gshen rab 'khor ba mya ngan 'das / 'khor ba'i sdug bsngal nad sbyang yin / skye dang 'chi dang na bar bstan / phyung po nad kyis rgyu yin te / nad kyi rtsa ba ma rig pas / dug gsum rgyud las nad gsum byung / rlung dang 'khris pa bad kan gsum / khams sum 'khor ba'i sdug bsngal dang / sdug bsngal mya ngan la 'das pa ste / bde ba chen po bon sku yin / ... ...<BR/><BR/>Hope you'll write more on this subject!Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.com