| Tibetan medicine has a long history. According to some historical document recorded, the complete system of Tibetan medicine has more than three thousand years of history. In ancient times, people were living on the Tibetan plateau and they began to struggle with nature for living. At that time they started to learn some functions of natural plants and got some experiences of curing. In the meanwhile, they/began to learn some pharmacological function of ancient productions through the hunting. It is said that people already found some medical materials to cure poison in the third BC. Also they often used some ancient simple treating methods', for instance, used butter to stop bleeding, used barley beer to treat wounds.As for the origin of Tibetan medicine, a lot of people said it was founded by Tonpa Shenrab because Bon was the ancient religion which was worshiped by people of Tibetan plateau. Historians of Bon religion mentioned there were nine medical traditions in Bon religion. During the reign of the king Nyatri Tsanpo, there were some pills which come from animal cranium, which was called as TujunWangrye pill. Nowadays this theory was recorded in the book of Poison Therapy, which was written by Gelpo Trixi who was the disciple of the founder of Bon religion Tonpa Shenrab and was edited by the famous Tibetan medical pharmacologist Demar Geshe Tenzin. In the present research Held of Tibetan medicine, this book was widely used by the researchers. So all of the specialists and scholars thought the theory system of Tibetan medicine has more than three thousands year history.In the fourth century AD, the famous medical scientist of India Bichi Gache and Bilha Gatse came to Tibet. They spread five medical classics on Tibetan plateau, including the Pulse Classic, Drug Classic, Treatment Classic and so on, which made an active effect for our local medicine.In seventh century, king Songtsan Gampo invited different doctors from India. Inland China and Dakshik. They delegated three different ancient traditional medical systems, and they began to translate some medical books of their own country.During the reign of king Trisong Detsan, Tibetan medicine was improved greatly. King Trisong Detsan invited many famous medicine scientists from neighbors, such as India, Nepal, mainland China, Trong, Truku, Tuipo. Meanwhile, those medicine scientists began to translate books on various nation's traditional medicine and wrote the summary works of Tibetan medicine which was the unique complete writing, for instance SomaRatsa.After the fourteenth century, there began to form two big different sects of medicine, which were Jangpa sect and Sukar sect based on different climates between the south and the north. These two sects greatly improved Tibetan medicine. At that time, all doctors of various places began to write all kinds of famous medicine books and four classic books of Tibetan medicine.The theory system of Tibetan medicine, the three mean elements of Tibetan medicine are Lung, Tripa, Padkan, six tastes and origin of Tibetan medicine. According to Four Classic Books of Tibetan Medicine, firstly, all of the things of a world are made from five elements, which are earth, water, fire, space and wind. The earth is the foundation of all things, water is the original liquid of all things and make all materials more wet, fire is the heat energy of all things, wind is the resource of all movement space is the room of all things' growing. The tastes of medicine have a close relation with the five elements. However, the growth of drug and natural conditions, ecological environment factors affect and restrict each other. It produces different drug tastes because of each of five elements'ingredient is different. For example, combining earth with water can produce sweetish taste, combining fire with earth can produce sour taste, combining water with fire can produce saline taste, combining water with wind can produce bitter taste, and combining fire with wind can produce acrid, combining earth with wind can produce astringent taste. If the medicine lacks one from five elements, especially, lacks space, the medicine will discussed, so it is full of unique characteristics.In a word, Tibetan medicine is a scientific subject, which has a long history, unique and effective in treatment. It is an ethnomedicine and was formed through struggling with all sorts of diseases in nature environment by Tibetan ancestors. Also it is a very important constituent part in the Chinese/medicine. It will serve greatly for the health of Tibetan people and other human beings.The development of Four Classic Books of Tibetan Medicine was closely related with traditional culture of Tibetan. If one understand well the traditional culture of Tibet and medical theory in ancient Tibetan document, which will have a significant ability to learn well the Four Tanlras of Tibetan Medicine.In this paper, I will research with ancient traditional culture of Tibet, talking about why the Four Tantras of Tibetan Medicine occurred in Tibet, expounded the primitive life, Bon religion and Tibetan medicine, Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan medicine, kalachakra, medical ethics view. By analyzing the combination and separate of all kinds of theories, for instance, the occurrence of Tibetan medicine view to Bon religion and Tibetan medicine. Analyzing the influence of traditional Tibetan culture to Tibetan medicine, put forward the multiculture is the concentrated reflection of Tibetan medicine culture. Understanding well traditional Tibetan medicine is a necessary shortcut of developing Tibetan medicine. In addition, I analyzed layer upon layer, to clear the venation between ancient culture and Tibetan medicine. I pointed out my view to state that how to understand, use, and develop Tibetan medicine for all of scholars.As for the understanding of life, Tibetan medicine has a rich, extensive, and profound understanding. That is why it became a special medical culture. So we should research the relationship between ancient traditional Tibetan culture and the formation and development of Four Tanlras of Tibetan Medicine. In order to understanding Tibetan medical culture, I will discuss the forming of Tibetan medicine system, the background of development of Tibetan medicine culture, philosophical foundation and relation with other course. From culture aspect, I will discuss the scientificity of theory of Tibetan medicine, to offer my own mental models of deep researching of Tibetan medicine theory, to offer my own correct methods to develop Tibetan medicine in future.
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