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Description: Image of leaves and the upper book cover of Thar pa chen po’i mod (The sūtra of great liberation), showing Tibetan writings on black paper with an ink that contain gold, silver, copper, coral, lazurite, malachite, and mother of pearl. The unbound sheets are kept between two wooden boards covered with green brocade. The upper book cover shows the images of four of the Eight Medicine Buddhas.
Title: Thar pa chen po’i mod = Sūtra of great liberation.
Credit: Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. Images from the History of Medicine (IHM), http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/A109237. Also showcased in the book: Hidden Treasure (New York, NY: Blast Books, 2012), p. 77.
Author: Bethesda, MD : U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Health & Human Services, [2010]
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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