The Tibetan Art of Healing

by Ian Baker, Romio Shrestha (Artist), Dalai Lama XIV (Foreword)

A beautifully illustrated book is based on a revered collection, once considered lost, of four-hundred-year-old Tibetan thangkas--paintings about our search for physical and spiritual well-being--on the art of healing. Simultaneous. IP.

Genres: Health, Art, Buddhism

192 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Ian studied art history, literature, and comparative religion at Middlebury College, Oxford University, and Columbia University and Medical Anthropology at University College London. He is an international fellow of the Explorers Club and was honored by National Geographic Society as one of six ‘Explorers for the Millennium’ for his ethnographic and geographical field research in Tibet’s Tsangpo gorges and his team’s discovery of a waterfall that had been the source of myth and geographic speculation for more than a century. (source: https://ianbakerjourneys.wordpress.com)

Reviews

[Lenny Husen · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5, rounding up because such an interesting unusual book of drawings. Saw a copy of this in Nepal and ordered my own when I got back. Good book to have for fascinating and colorful illustrations of states of health and disease, vices leading to illness, 3 Humors (Phlegm, Wind, Bile). Good for anyone who is into Medical History.
I was a bit disappointed in the text--much more went into the illustrations than the explanations. Also many of the illustrations were too small to see well even with strong reading glasses.

I liked this but did not love it--not sure I will refer back to it in future. One to collect but not reread.

[Saleris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this book. I was in The Occidental museum at Durham when I bought it on a whim. I have an interest in complementary medicine and cultural modes of approaches to healng, and this ticks all the boxes. Great stuff.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is completely worth reading for the art alone.

[Karyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is stunning.