SET 3a-f Kim Yemong et al. Ui’bang’ryuchui 醫方類聚, vol. 5, pp. 51-70
A D B E C F SET 3a-f Kim Yemong et al. Ui’bang’ryuchui 醫方類聚, vol. 5, pp. 51-70 (original edition in Kyoto Palace, Japan; microfilm copy in National Library, Korea) Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) – Chinese ideas about the images of the animal spirits, here of the lungs, the heart, the liver, the […]
SET 2a+b Huangting dunjia yuanshen jing 黃庭遁甲緣身經 (Book of the Hidden Period and the Causal [Karma] Body of the Yellow Court) DZ 0873
A B SET 2a+b Huangting dunjia yuanshen jing 黃庭遁甲緣身經 (Book of the Hidden Period and the Causal [Karma] Body of the Yellow Court) DZ 0873 A Shangqing huangting wuzang liufu zhenren yuzhou jing 上清黃庭五藏六腑真人玉軸經 (Precious Scroll of the Zhenren on the Six Receptacles and Five Viscera of the Yellow Court of Shangqing) DZ 1402Phoenix of […]
The Lower Cinnabar Field
The Lower Cinnabar Field Li Jiong’s Neijing tu 内景圖 (Chart of the Inner Landscape, (1269)) Huangdi bashiyi nanjing zuan tu jujie in Zhengtong Daozang 1436–49, Hanfen Lou, Shanghai (Ming edition of the Daoist Canon) Wellcome Library, London, L0034715. Cross-reference: Maps of the inner sceneries • from the right side, D | 16Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 […]
Moxibustion points according to Medical Arts of the Lunar King, Sowa Rigpa intersections with Chinese and Indian medical canons
Moxibustion points according to Medical Arts of the Lunar King, Sowa Rigpa intersections with Chinese and Indian medical canons 20th century reproduction of 17th century CE painting. Held in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. – Moxibustion is a treatment particularly indicated for metabolic conditions (ma zhu ba) and weak digestive fire (me drod nyams pa) […]
Treatment points for moxibustion, venesection, and surgery
Treatment points for moxibustion, venesection, and surgery 20th century reproduction of 17th century CE painting. Held in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. – This painting depicts the anterior view for the three types of external therapy treatment points: moxibustion, venesection, and surgical puncture. Moxibustion points are vermillion numbers and lines, venesection points are blue lines […]
Major connecting blood vasculature of the body including gut with related vulnerable points
Major connecting blood vasculature of body including gut with related vulnerable points 20th century reproduction of 17th century CE painting. Held in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. – Explicated in high detail in the traumatology section of the Four Tantras as developed from early military medical manuals, this painting depicts major blood vessels of the […]
Body metaphors including guts
Body metaphors including guts 20th century reproduction of 17th century CE painting. Held in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia – The musculoskeletal system is likened to the architecture of a Tibetan temple, while internal organs, differentiated as solid (vital) and hollow (vessel) types, use different illustrative metaphors. The group of solid viscera include the heart, […]
Location of internal organs on modular grid
Location of internal organs on modular grid 20th century reproduction of 17th century CE painting. Held in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. – The central figures present the anterior and posterior views of the proper positions and proportions of anatomical structures from a theoretical perspective in relation to the spine by means of the Tibetan […]
Anatomy of the gut, anterior view
Anatomy of the gut, anterior view 20th century reproduction of 17th century CE painting. Held in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. – This painting displays an enumeration of body part components (e.g., bones, vertebrae, joints, etc.) and diagrams the proper associated relational measures in anterior view using a quadrant grid. The abdominal quadrant covers 12×8 […]
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 […]