The unique Tibetan system of calculations of the lunar weekday and date, used to bring the lunar and solar calendars into harmony, lead to the features of doubled and skipped lunar dates and leap-months, all of which differ from those features in the Chinese and Indian...

Learn about the distinct features of the Tibetan almanac such as the “arising from the vowels” system, special dates and combination and action periods.

An overview of the history of Tibetan medicine from the pre-Buddhist Bon tradition, the Indian Buddhist medical tradi­tion introduced by Vairochana, to the spread of the Tibetan medical system to the Mongol regions.

There are various systems of classification of diseases in Tibetan medicine in which they are viewed as imbalances caused by internal or external factors or both. The most common classifications are in terms of imbalances of the three humors (wind, bile and phlegm) and the...

Diagnosis of disease in Tibetan medicine is done by a three-fold process: visual examination, pulse and urine analysis, and questioning the patient about symptoms.

Treatment is made by suggesting patients modify their diet and behavior, and then prescribing herbal medicines, as well as sometimes acupuncture, moxabustion or other external proce­dures.

Existent phenomena are defined as what is validly knowable. In the Sautrantika system, existent phenomena are divided into nonstatic objective entities and static metaphysical ones.

Bare cognition is a fresh, nonfraudulent awareness that is non-deceptive and parted from concepts.

A semblance of a bare cognition is an awareness that is deceptive with respect to its appearing object.

Conceptual cognition is a deceptive cognition, because it confuses a category and generic representation of a member of a category with a specific item. Western languages call such conceptual labeling “projection.”