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No. VIII. Analysis of a Tibetan Medical Work. 
[J.A.8.B., Vol. IV, p. 1 (1835).] 
The principal work on medicine in Tibet is that entitled 
the ** rGyud bZhi”’ ( nia the tract iin four parts). It is 
attributed to SHA’KyYA, though not introduced into the Kah- 
gyur or heen he collecti 
When in Tibet I requested the Lama, my instructor in the 
language of tke country, to give me an account of its contents, 
which he did in an abridged compilation divided, like the original, 
into four parts. The present translation of the LAMA’s manu- 
script may be interesting to those who are curious on the subject 
of Tibetan literature, and the state of medical phate in that 
remote part of the world. The materials of the o 
usual all derived from Sanskrit works, which oak not however 
hitherto been made known in an English dr dress 
The following is the account given in the work itself of the 
manner in which this Treatise of Medicine found its way to Tibet. 
In the time of Kurt-srona Drnuts4n (in the 8th or 9th 
century of the Christian era) a Tibetan interpreter Batror- 
SANA (or Vairochana) having translated it in Cashmir, with 
the assistance of a physician-pandit ( RTARTA - Dava 
mNon-gah), presented it to the remit Tibetan-king. 
a time it was received pele gyu-THOG ’’ a learned at 
physician of the same name, who is called “ te ancient.’ 
This physician much improved and propagated it ; ie at that 
time, it is mine nine men became learned in medici 
ie LAMA, ote me this extract, mintierts several 
works on ediinb, current in Tibet, of which the most cele- 
brated is a commentary on the present ‘work, entitled ‘‘ Baidtirya 
shon-po’’ (the lapis lazuli) written by ‘‘Sangs-rgyas rgya 
mts’ho ”’ HHF NCAAs a regent at Lassa about the 
end of the 17th century. 
The Lama states that there are about forty books or works 
written in Tibet, on medicine, besides the five volumes in the 
