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Dictionary of Tibetan Materia Medica is the first dictionary of its kind. All the entries are arranged in Tibetan alphabetical order which will enable the readers to find the names of medicinal ingredients easily.
Inclusion in the main entry, of different names of medicinal ingredients such as names derived from foreign languages, synonym, secret and poetical names will prove extremely useful for identification. Description of every medicinal ingredient and information on their tastes, powers and uses are also given according to some of the most popular texts.
This dictionary was first published in Tibetan in 1994. In this English version the translator and editor, Dr. Yonten Gyatso, has given Latin names of almost all the medicines. Moreover, this English edition is a much improved and enlarged version over its Tibetan one. It has over 3,000 main entries.
Most of the materials are compiled from Sel gori sel phren, the most famous text on Tibetan Pharmacopoeia, and from Rin chen khruns dpe, one of the oldest and most reliable texts. Therefore, for the non-Tibetan readers this dictionary presents materials from the above texts which are translated for the first time into English.
This dictionary, with its many special features, will be of immense use and value for students, research scholars, doctors and pharmacologists of Tibetan medicine, and for ethno-botanists.
Hardcover, 310 Pages, $40.00
Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya graduated from Tibetan Medical and Astrological
Institute (TMAI), Dharamsala, in 1977. He served in TMAI as assistant
pharmacologist, and in 1982 he was appointed as the principal of the
Tibetan Medical College, Dharamsala. In 1989 he worked as a lecturer in
Tibetan medicine at the Central Institute of Buddhist Philosophy in
Ladakh. From 1990 he began his travels to Soviet Union, Mongolia,
England, Canada and Europe. He has been staying in Italy since 1992
where he founded a study group for Tibetan medicine and Yuthok
Institute of Tibetan Medicine. He has written many articles and books
on Tibetan medicine and astrology in Tibetan, English and Italian.
Dr. Yonten Gyatso graduated from the Tibetan Medical and
Astrological Institute, Dharamsala, in 1987. He served for five years
in the Plant Research Section of the Institute Research Department. He
developed a modern herbarium of Tibetan medicinal plants for the
Institute, for which he did extensive field research in various regions
of the Himalayas with most of the famous Tibetan doctors in exile.
Presently he is an independent researcher based in Dharamsala, India.
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