Index
Arura Group
VIII, 221, 345
Avicenna
.
see Ibn Sīnā.
Basileos of Tsan
.
see Tsan Pashilaha.
béken
.
see three peccant humors.
Belo Tsewang Künkhyap (’be lo tshe dbang kun khyab)
61–63, 203
on Yutok the Elder
61–62
Biji’s Yellow-covered Book (bi ji’i po ti kha ser)
21, 39–40
.
Tsan Pashilaha.
black bile
28–39
brown phlegm (bad kan smug po)
5–7, 22–25
,
and melancholia
26–27
.
black bile; three peccant humors.
Brown Phlegm Résumé of a Thousand [Sections] (bad kan smug po stong thun)
16–17.
Thousand-session Tutorial on the Channels.
cancer
144–46
and dréné (’bras nad)
153–62, 183, 207
and drétren (’bras skran)
162–66
and metabolic disruptions (ma zhu ba)
172–74, 179–82
and méwel (me dbal)
174–77
and surya (surya)
177–79
and tren (skran)
151–53
biomedical understandings of
146–48, 166–70, 183–87
.
Samten; wounds.
channel examination
.
see diagnosis.
channel prasenā ritual
.
see ritual.
Chokro Za Karmo Nyen (cog ro gza’ dkar mo gnyan)
204–205.
Nine-fold Magical Cord Cycle.
combined disease (’dus pa’i nad)
17, 21, 227.
three peccant humors.
Compendium of the Essence of the Eight Branches (yan lag brgyad pa’i snying po bsdus pa; Skt. aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā)
and the Four Tantras
9
on contagious disease
230
contagious disease
227–33
black one, union of three (nag po sum sgril)
235
epidemic fevers (rimné, rims tshad)
227–33
infectious disease (nyenné, gnyan nad)
227–33
Darmo Menrampa Lozang Chödrak (dar mo sman rams pa blo bzang chos grags)
and the biography of Yutok the Elder
65
on secret medicine
93–94, 107
Dash, Vaidya Bhagwan
55–58
Desi Sanggyé Gyatso (sde srid sangs rgyas rgya mtsho)
85–87
on contagious disease
224–25
on life-wind illness
88–92
on metabolic disruptions (ma zhu ba)
179–82
on secret medicine
92–94, 105–107
on Yutok the Elder
60–61, 65
.
See also Extended Commentary on the Instructional Tantra.
diagnosis
234–47, 261–65
channel examination
236–40, 277–99
signs of death
238–42
Diocles of Carystus
29–31
Dorbum Chökyi Drakpa (rdor ’bum chos kyi grags pa)
222
Drangti (brang ti) family
VIII, 223, 290
Drangti Gyelnyé Kharbu (brang ti rgyal mnyes mkhar bu[/phug])
VIII, 206
Drangti Penden Tsojé (brang ti dpal ldan ’tsho byed)
69, 291, 300–302
Drejé Gyagar Vajra (’dre rje rgya gar badzra)
62, 70–74
Essence of the Eight Branches
.
see Compendium of the Essence of the Eight Branches.
Extended Commentary on the Instructional Tantra (man ngag lhan thabs)
87–88
on contagious disease
224–25
on life-wind illness
88–92
on metabolic disruptions (ma zhu ba)
179–82
on secret medicine
92–94, 105–107
Fourfold Collection (’bum bzhi)
9
Fourfold Tantra
.
see Four Tantras.
Four Tantras (rgyud bzhi)
and Yutok the Elder
62, 76–77
authorship and origins of
8–9, 76–77
channel examination in
284–85
on anatomical structures
113–14
on brown phlegm
10–14, 55–58
on contagious disease
228
on dréné (’bras nad)
153–62, 183
on metabolic disruptions (ma zhu ba)
170–74, 181–82, 185
on méwel (me dbal)
174–77
on spirit-caused illness
320–22
on surya (surya)
177–79
on tren (skran)
152–53
sources of
14–18
wonder channels in
295–99
.
Extended Commentary on the Instructional Tantra.
Galen of Pergamum
34–36
in Tibet
40
Garuḍa (khyung)
252–53, 272–73
genealogy
264–65
Good Manufacturing Practices
343, 347
Great Vase of the Amṛta of Immortality (’chi med bdud rtsi bum chen)
diagnosis in
234–47
on contagious disease
230–33
provenance of
221–27
ritual healing in
247–54
Greco-Arab medicine
28–39
Hippocrates of Kos
29
humors
.
see three peccant humors.
Ibn Sīnā
36–39
Instructions of the Six Lamps (sgron ma drug gi gdams pa)
21
Jewel Rosary (nor bu’i ’phreng ba)
15
Jigme Phuntsok
.
see Jikmé Püntsok.
Jikmé Püntsok (’jigs med phun tshogs)
344, 350–52
Jiumei Tibetan Medicine Co. Ltd
.
344, 350–52
Kulacūḍāmaṇi Tantra
98
Lamp of Sunbeams: A Channel Manual (rtsa yig nyi zer sgron me)
236–37, 293–95
Lha Totori Nyenshel (lha tho tho ri gnyan btsan)
68–69
life-wind illness (srog rlung nad)
88–92
Little Tantra (rgyud chung)
16, 178, 278
madness (smyo nad)
313–33
medical illustrations
111–12
from Atsagat Monastery
115, 120, 126–27, 130
Illustrations to the Blue Beryl
95, 114–15, 119, 126, 129–30, 133–34
in modern Tibetan sources
116–17, 120–22, 124–26, 127–28, 131–32
of organs
119–34
Medicine of the Moon King (sman dpyad zla ba’i rgyal po)
and the Four Tantras
9
channel examination in
285–88
on brown phlegm
18–22, 49–54
on contagious disease
229
Men-Tsee-Khang (India)
347–49
Mentsikhang (sman rtsis khang; PRC)
337, 342, 344
mercury-sulfide ash (btso thal)
340, 342
Moon King
.
see Medicine of the Moon King.
moral economy of Tibetanness
345
Nāgārjuna
74, 236, 261, 289, 292–93, 301
.
see Medicine of the Moon King; Lamp of Sunbeams.
Ngawang Sanggyé Pelzang (ngag dbang sangs rgyas dpal bzang)
92–94, 107
Nine-fold Magical Cord Cycle (’phrul gyi the gu brgu skor)
199–214
medical healing in
207–211
ritual healing in
211–14
the provenance of
201–206
nyenné
.
see contagious disease.
nyepa
.
see three peccant humors.
Oral Instructions Supplement
.
see Extended Commentary on the Instructional Tantra.
organs
19, 208, 245
and brown phlegm
19
and channel examination
285–87
and digestion
122–27
and the urogenital system
127–34
in the thoracic cavity
118–22
reproductive organs
129–34
Padmasambhava
224–25, 275–76
prasenā
.
see ritual.
precious pills (rin chen ril bu)
337–64
cautionary advice for
357–58, 362–63
ingredients of
352–54, 361–63
prescription of
354–56, 361–63
Precious Treasury (rin chen gter mdzod)
221–27
Questions of Subāhu Tantra (’phags pa dpung bzang gis zhus pa zhes bya ba’i rgyud = Skt. subāhuparipṛcchātantra)
267–70, 280
rimné
.
see contagious disease.
ritual
amulets
253–54
channel prasenā ritual (rtsa’i pra sgrub)
277–83, 295–99
evocation ritual (sgrub thabs)
251–54
materia magica
247–51
mirror divination (’phrul kyi me long)
246–47
prasenā divination (pra se na)
265–76, 293–302
ransom ritual (glud)
211–13
scattering ritual (byol thabs)
212–13
treatment of spirit-caused illness
326–31
Ritual Manual of Bhikṣu Prajñāprabhā (b-ig kru prad nya pra ba ’-i no pyi ka)
271–74
rlung
.
see three peccant humors.
Rufus of Ephesus
31–34
Samten (bsam gtan)
162–64
on anatomy
121, 128, 130, 132
on cancer and other growths
164–66, 174, 177, 179, 183
Sanggyé Gyatso
.
see Desi Sanggyé Gyatso.
secret medicine (gsang sman)
92–105
and Buddhist ethics
101–103
and potency
100
at Chakpori
103–105
examples of
97–99
hermeneutics of
95–97
seven bodily constituents (lus zungs bdun)
149
Sigerist, Henry E
.
XI
Small Tantra
.
see Little Tantra.
Smith, Malcolm
26–27
Sokpo Lungrik Tendar (sog po lung rigs bstan dar)
96
Sons’ Benefit (bu don ma)
15–16
on brown phlegm
15–16
on contagious disease
228–29
Sowa Rigpa (gso ba rig pa)
in India
311
origins of
68–69
spirit-caused illness
314–18
and psychology
324–26
spirit possession
322–24
treatment of
326–31
Supplements to the Instructional Tantra
.
see Extended Commentary on the Instructional Tantra.
Śvetaketu (dam pa tog dkar po)
66–67
Testament of Wa (dba’ bzhed)
274–76
Thousand-session Tutorial on the Channels (rtsa’i stong thun)
289–92
.
Brown Phlegm Résumé of a Thousand [Sections].
three peccant humors (nyes pa gsum): wind (rlung), bile (mkhris pa), phlegm (bad kan)
23–25, 311–12
brown phlegm.
and channel examination
285
and the four humors
23
as aggregators (’du ba)
208
as five humors
289
as functional energetic systems
149–51, 170–72
in Āyurveda
25
tripa
.
see three peccant humors.
Tsan Pashilaha (tsan pa shi la ha)
39–40, 199
Vase of Amṛta
.
see Great Vase of the Amṛta of Immortality.
viscera
.
see organs.
wonder channels (ngo mtshar gyi rtsa)
281–82, 293–99
.
Four Tantras.
wounds
and cancer and other growths
153–55, 159–60, 175–78, 183–84
the healing of
207–211
Yang Ga
49–54
Yutok the Elder
.
see Yutok Yönten Gönpo the Elder.
Yutok Yönten Gönpo the Elder (g.yu thog rnying ma yon tan mgon po)
and the Four Tantras
76–77
and the Nine Tibetan Physicians (bod kyi sman pa mi dgu)
78–79
and the Tibetan royal family
74–76
and Yutok the Younger
72
biography of
65–81
lineage of
70–72
modern scholarship on
63–64, 79–81
Zahor (za hor)
204–205