Reproduced artwork detailing small and large intestines with Tibetan and Latin labels
Reproduced artwork detailing small and large intestines with Tibetan and Latin labels Reproduced artwork detailing small and large intestines with Tibetan and Latin labels. Contemporary knitwork. © Katharina Sabernig – Tibetan classical medical vocabulary is already rich in anatomical terms. When encountering biomedical concepts, new terms were coined in the Tibetan language. Nevertheless, many historical […]
Knitted artwork of guts based on Tibetan medical painting at Atsagat Monastery, Republic of Buryatia, Russia.
Knitted artwork of guts based on Tibetan medical painting at Atsagat Monastery, Republic of Buryatia, Russia Knitted artwork of guts based on Tibetan medical painting at Atsagat Monastery, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. © Katharina Sabernig – In Buryatia, an ethnically Mongolian region belonging to Russia, Tibetan medical knowledge encountered biomedical knowledge in the early twentieth […]
A Brave Warrior with Guts
A Brave Warrior with Guts (1991)”Luo Tong Sweeps the North”, Caiyuan dong’an’gong Temple, Magong CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 – Wall painting is an adequate to transmit the religion’s value. This painting in a Taoist temple depicts a scene before the heroic sacrifice of a fictional warrior. When General Luo Tong joined Emperor Tang Taizong’s (reign 626-649) expeditionary […]
Manchu face, Universal body
Manchu face, Universal body (Early 18th century) Ge ti ciowan lu bithe, or Manchu Anatomy (based on Thomas Bartholin, Anatomia, 1684), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris – The Jesuits actively persuaded the Kangxi Emperor to study anatomy. They hoped that he would convert to Christianity while marveling at the wonders of the various parts of […]
The right kidney as the gate of life
A B The Right kidney as the Gate of life. A No title. The right kidney as the Gate of life. Kajiwara Shōzen 梶原性全 (1265–1337) Man’anpo 万安方, 1315–27, scroll 54. Edo 江戸 period (1603–1868) manuscript. National Archives of Japan. B ‘The Right kidney as the Gate of life governs blood and essence and enters the […]
The Screen gate
A B The Screen gate A No title. The Screen gate. Kajiwara Shōzen 梶原性全 (1265–1337) Man’anpo 万安方, 1315–27, scroll 54. Edo 江戸 period (1603–1868) manuscript. National Archives of Japan. B ‘Illustration of the Screen gate that separates water and grains’, Lanmen shuigu mibie tu 闌門水穀泌別圖. Wang Haogu 王好古 (1200–64?) The Great Teaching of Yi Yin’s Decoction […]