The household collection of Lobsang Gatuk. A collection of medical texts and medical artefacts. Arrangement: All material kept in the household prayer room.
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. No tItle page. A text in several sections, some woodblock printed others handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text primarily describing the reading of pulses, a fundamental Tibetan amchi diagnostic method. Extent: One unboun...
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A text in two sections, woodblock printed in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. First title is difficult to read in parts because the inking is heavy but is perhaps (Tib. ༄༅། །གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྨན་བླའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་གསལ་བྱེ...
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A woodblock printed text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title is difficult to read in parts but perhaps (Tib. ༄༅། །གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྨན་བླའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་གསལ་བྱེད་བཻ་ཌཱུར་སྔོན་པོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལས་དུམ་བུ་གཉིས་པ་བཤད་པའི་རྒ...
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A woodblock printed text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Close up details of woodblock illustrations follow the pages of text. Title is difficult to read in parts but perhaps (Tib ༄༅། །མན་ངག་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཐབས་ཟུག་རྔུའི་ཚ་གདུང་...
Medical suction cups. A collection of five suction cups: two brass cones and three animal horn tips that used for "cupping" the technique of applying a vacuum to remove bad blood (black blood). The cup is applied to the skin for half an hour, the hole in the tip of the cup sealed for that time wi...
A metal container with wooden pull out drawer and five amchi medical tools, one razor sharp for cutting skin, plus a single spoon. Extent: One medical container, several small tools and a brass spoon. Size and dimensions of original material: The container is 16 x 3 x 3 cm, the spoon is 20.5 cm ...
A collections of twelve small leather bags of varying sizes. Extent: Twelve leather bags. Size and dimensions of original material: Varying from 7.5 to 14 cm long. Condition of original material: Worn and stained through age and usage. Arrangement: All material kept in the household prayer room.