Dataset of illness classifications in Sowa Rigpa: Compilations from the Oral Instructions Treatise of the Tibetan medical classic (Rgyud bzhi).

ABSTRACT: This article shares the comprehensive dataset and five visualized examples of disease categories in Tibetan medicine, or Sowa Rigpa (Tib. Gso ba rig pa), translated as the "knowledge field of healing." Sowa Rigpa is a scholarly Asian traditional medical system rigorously transmitted through canonical texts and oral teachings originating in Tibet with an extensive pharmacopeia, comprehensive treatment repertoire, and nuanced etiological explications of its nosology of diseases. This medical tradition is practiced across a broad region of Asia, particularly in Tibetan regions of China, Himalayan regions of India (Ladakh, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh), Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia, Russia, and recently in Europe and North America. The data herein depicts disease classifications listed in the en

SUBMITTER: Dhondrup W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063332 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature