Museums in Genoa
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Kitab-al-Ḥašā'iš (Book of Herbs)
Arabic translation of De Materia medica by Dioscorides (1st c)
Miniature depicting the interior of a medieval pharmacy
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Automate da al-Jazarī
Miniature from a copy of the Treatise on al-Jazari mechanical procedures (al-Jāmiʿ bain al-ʿilm wa al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal)(1204-1206) illustrating an automate able to measure the amount of blood taken during a bloodletting
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Liber canonis medicinae
Title page of the Latin translation by Gerardo da Cremona (12th c) of ibn Sīnā’s work (Avicenna 980-1037)
Kitab al-Qānūn fī al-Tibb' ("The Canon of Medicine")
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Bhaisajyaguru
ambito Tibet
Bhaisajyaguru (Sangs-rGyas sMan-bLa)
sculpture
1801 - 1900 - XIX
MTPT3
Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 23; Larghezza: 22; Profondità: 16
Tibet
bronzo e ferro
Bhaiṣajyaguru is the Buddha of medicine, a central figure in the Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna traditions. Supreme manifestation of the Buddha as a “master healer,” who through his “medicine” (Dharma) cures “disease” (duḥkha) by directing the “sick person” who relies on him (the disciple) to ultimate “healing” (nirvāṇa'). His emblems are different kinds of medicinal plants and a bowl. He is often depicted with a blue-colored body, usually made of ground lapis lazuli, sitting in padmāsana, with his right hand in varadamudrā and a bud, fruit or flowering branch in the same hand. The bowl, which simultaneously represents the offering in the spiritual dimension and the instrument for preparing medicines in the material dimension, is held up in the left hand. Sculpture depicting Bhaisajyaguru (Sangs-rGyas sMan-bLa), Medicine Buddha, Master of the medical arts and healer of all ills, along with some medicinal plants, his typical emblems.
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Vaidurya sNgon-po - table 1
Cloth
The Blue Beryl, XVII century.
The palace of the Buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru, lord of medicines
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Phur-ba
Wood, bone and metal
Ritual dagger with triangular blade surmounted by the effigy of Hayagrīva, irate deity who defeats demons and protects the medical elixir (rta-mgrin)
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Vaidurya sNgon-po - table 12
Cloth
The Blue Beryl, XVII century.
Path of the "principle of the duration of life" (transmits the generative liquids through the whole body starting from the supreme central point called "seed of buddhahood") and enumeration of the seventy-seven points suitable for bleeding.
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Bhaiṣajyaguru mantra
Mantra of the Medicine Buddha
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Vaidurya sNgon-po - table 38
Cloth
The Blue Beryl, XVII century.
Front view of the points for moxibustion, minor surgery and bleeding
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Vaidurya sNgon-po - table 26
Cloth
The Blue Beryl, XVII century.
Herbaceous medicines (from "silvery" cerastas to codonopsid)
