Books and Study Materials on Tibetan Medicine

[Josef]

Thought a thread to post this kind of thing would be useful for those interested.

Here are a couple of books that I found very interesting.

Mirror of Beryl
http://www.wisdompubs.org/Pages/display ... ch&image=1

Birth, Life, and Death
http://www.shangshungpublications.org/2 ... and-death/

[username]

http://www.alessandroboesi.eu/Publications.htm

Some articles within certain issues of Bulletin of Tibetology (filename convention: bot_XXXX_0*_full where XXXX is year eg: 2005):
http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/colle ... s/bot/pdf/

[Josef]

Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry by Terry Clifford.

Early in the book is a very interesting discussion of how Vajrayana Buddhism greatly influenced and contributed to the sophistication of ayurveda in India.

[Malcolm]

Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry by Terry Clifford.

Early in the book is a very interesting discussion of how Vajrayana Buddhism greatly influenced and contributed to the sophistication of ayurveda in India.

It is the opposite way actually. Ayruveda contributed to the development of annutarayoga tantra completion stage practices.

[Josef]

Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry by Terry Clifford.

Early in the book is a very interesting discussion of how Vajrayana Buddhism greatly influenced and contributed to the sophistication of ayurveda in India.

It is the opposite way actually. Ayruveda contributed to the development of annutarayoga tantra completion stage practices.

I can definitely see that.
The book is a bit old and Cliffords thesis reads as though tantra influenced medicine but it actually makes more sense (at least early on) that the well established medical system would be the primary influencer.