General Therapeutic Principles

$135
Item Code: TE60
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Tibetan Thangka Painting
Dimensions 15.0" x 21.5"
Handmade
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This painting shows how to lead a healthy life by maintaining a balanced diet, following proper conduct, and using the right medicine.

All diseases can be placed into two categories – hot diseases and cold diseases. The diagnostic process consists of visual inspection, palpation, and questioning (illustrated on the right side of the second row).

The key items to check in an examination are the five sense organs, urine, sputum, vomit, fees, and blood

Visual inspection includes checking skin color, body shape and size, and other things that the physician can see with the naked eye.

Palpation consists of reading the pulse, feeling the body temperature, and feeling the roughness or smoothness of the skin. The pulse is like a messenger between the physician and the patient. Through experience and knowledge the physician is able read many different pulses.

Questioning is also a useful and informative diagnostic technique. It involves listening to the patient describe symptoms, location of illness, and causative factors. Correct diagnosis requires careful observation, experience, and listening.

Once a diagnosis has been made there are four levels of disease's seriousness with regard to the possibilities of success in treatment: some are easily treatable, some difficult to treat, some with a remote chance of a cure, and some that are incurable or not to be cured for various reasons. For an illness that is easily cured, we simply need a good physician, good medicine, caring nursing, and an obedient patient. Illnesses that are difficult to cure are chronic diseases that need many different methods of treatment over a long period of time. If the patient does not have a good physician and good nursing, the disease will be difficult to cure. For diseases that have a remote chance of a cure, we can see that some patient are diagnosed as incurable, though the patient may remain alive for a long time. This is because, as Buddhists, Tibetans believe that an individual's own lifespan is based on karma. For some people this can be as short as one week and for others as long as a hundred years. Diseases are incurable when the patient is unable to take food and drink, and when there are only skin and bones, no pulse, and no response to any form of treatment. For the physician to with hold treatment the patient would have to be particularly evil – someone who would only commit many negative and harmful actions to society if they remained alive.

There are ten ways of taking medicine. If it is a bad-kan disorder, the medicine should be taken on an empty stomach and in the early morning. If the disease is connected with downward-cleansing rlung, the medicine should be taken immediately before lunch. If it is a rlung disorder, medicine must be taken during lunch. If it is pervasive rlung disorder, medicine should taken immediately after lunch or dinner. If it is a life-sustaining rlung disorder, medicine should taken in small does and at the same time as eating food, a little after every alternate mouthful. If it is an upward-moving rlung disorder, medicine should be taken as soon as food has been digested. If the patient has asthma, medicine should be taken in small does and as frequently as possible. If the patient has a weak appetite, medicine is taken food. If the patient suffers from hiccups, medicine should be taken both before and after meals. If the patient has diseases connected to the head, medicine should be taken before dinner and after food has been digested.

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Unveiling the Divine Art: Journey into the Making of Thangkas

A Thangka is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist painting that usually depicts a Buddhist Deity (Buddha or Bodhisattva), a scene, or a mandala. These paintings are considered important paraphernalia in Buddhist rituals. They are used to teach the life of the Buddha, various lamas, and Bodhisattvas to the monastic students, and are also useful in visualizing the deity while meditating. One of the most important subjects of thangkas is the Bhavacakra (the wheel of life) which depicts the Art of Enlightenment. It is believed that Thangka paintings were developed over the centuries from the murals, of which only a few can be seen in the Ajanta caves in India and the Mogao caves in Gansu Province, Tibet. Thangkas are painted on cotton or silk applique and are usually small in size. The artist of these paintings is highly trained and has a proper understanding of Buddhist philosophy, knowledge, and background to create a realistic and bona fide painting.
The process of making a thangka begins with stitching a loosely woven cotton fabric onto a wooden frame. Traditionally, the canvas was prepared by coating it with gesso, chalk, and base pigment.
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After this, the outline of the form of the deity is sketched with a pencil or charcoal onto the canvas using iconographic grids. The drawing process is followed in accordance with strict guidelines laid out in Buddhist scriptures. The systematic grid helps the artist to make a geometrical and professional painting. When the drawing of the figures is finalized and adjusted, it is then outlined with black ink.
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Earlier, a special paint of different colors was made by mixing powdered forms of organic (vegetable) and mineral pigments in a water-soluble adhesive. Nowadays, artists use acrylic paints instead. The colors are now applied to the sketch using the wet and dry brush techniques. One of the characteristic features of a thangka is the use of vibrant colors such as red, blue, black, green, yellow, etc.
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In the final step, pure gold is coated over some parts of the thangka to increase its beauty. Due to this beautification, thangkas are much more expensive and also stand out from other ordinary paintings.
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Thangka paintings are generally kept unrolled when not on display on the wall. They also come with a frame, a silken cover in front, and a textile backing to protect the painting from getting damaged. Because Thangkas are delicate in nature, they are recommended to be kept in places with no excess moisture and where there is not much exposure to sunlight. This makes them last a long time without their colors fading away. Painting a thangka is an elaborate and complex process and requires excellent skills. A skilled artist can take up to 6 months to complete a detailed thangka painting. In earlier times, thangka painters were lamas that spent many years on Buddhist studies before they painted.
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