Bloodletting points and moxa points on the human body. Gouache painting, Tibet.
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The chart indicates points on the body which are important according to Saṅs-rgyas rGya-mtsh's medical textbook "Vaiḍurya sṄon po" of the 17th century, which is a commentary on the rGyud bźi ("Four tantras")
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1 painting : gouache on canvas ; sheet 36 x 25.5 cm
Lettering
Ink inscriptions: 22 short pieces of text in dbu can script
References note
Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, p. 105, thankas banners and paintings no. 54
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Wellcome Collection 582618i
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