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Atlas of Tibetan medicine. Sheet 9

Creation period
late 19th century
Dimensions
82x68 cm
Technique
thangka
10
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Atlas of Tibetan medicine. Sheet 9. ‘Exegetical Tantra’
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It features the complicated system of different vessels representing the energy currents, nerve fibers and blood vessels. According to the Buddhists, this very structure is the basis of spiritual and physical existence of the human body. The theory of Buddhist philosophy of the eternal genesis circulation is based on such psychophysical complex. 

‘Three bodies’ make up the triunity of the human body:

1. ‘The Latent Body’ of the absolute truth is the finest sensorium based on the finest electric current. This sensorium attributes the soul to the embryo and stimulates the ‘thin body’ creation.
2. ‘The Thin Body’ appears during first two months of embryo’s evolution and consists of many blood vessels and psychophysical currents. It as well has the currents/channels of phenomenal thin sensorium and the basic sensorium connected with the sense organs.
3. “The Basic Body” is a body made of flesh and blood and is formed from the “living essences of the thin body”. It is believed that the body won’t die as long as the ‘living essences’ function there.

All vessels of the ‘basic body’ can be divided into four big groups: the forming ones, the managing ones, the connecting ones and the vessels of life. Three main vessels-currents of the ‘thin body’ are relevant to the first group. 

The central vessel-current connected with the ‘air’ primary element goes through the body centre from the top of the head to the genitals. It is shown as the straight channel emitting the blue light and representing the ‘thin body’s’ central line. The beginning of the genitals’ formation and the origin of lust, which gives birth to the physiological energy ‘pneuma’, is in the lower part.

The second basic vessel-current is located on the right of the central one. It is connected with ‘fire’ element, emits red color and represents the feminity. This vessel forms the black vessel of life producing blood. Is it the origin of rage and it gives birth to the physiological energy ‘bile’.

The third basic vessel-current is located on the left of the central one and is connected with ‘water’ element. It emits the white color and represents the masculinity. At the upper part this vessel forms the brain being the origin of dark thoughts and gives birth to the physiological energy ‘phlegm’.

These vessels are united in the areas of head and genitals. Being connected in the genitals, they create the ‘tumo’, or the mystical fever center which can be transformed into the physical heat by the experienced yogi-practitioner. Three basic vessels interlink in the areas of the head, throat, bellybutton and the genitals forming the likeness of a spider wheel or chakra in the place of each intersection.

The managing vessels are divided into five groups: the vessels of the head chakra that manage the sense organs, the vessels of the throat chakra or ‘the vessel of food and beverage enjoyment’, the vessels of the heart chakra or ‘the vessel of beautiful consciousness’, the vessels of the bellybutton chakra or ‘the central pylon’s vessel’, the vessels of the genitals chakra rule the reproduction.

The images in the upper cartouches finish the representation of the lineage of the tractate “The Vase of Nectar”. The 5th Dalai Lama and the followers of the tractate “The experience of healing the black smallpox” are among them. Three outer images open the representation of the followers of tractate “Various relics”. 
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Atlas of Tibetan medicine. Sheet 9

Creation period
late 19th century
Dimensions
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