"In this age made  totally  dark  By  the  five   great degenerations, The sentient being constantaly tossed. In waves of diseases,sorrow & pain. Thus Budha out of great compassion, Emanates as Bendurya,the  Medicine  Guru, To shine as a sun in the skies of the world, And dry up the water giving birth to all ills." A Benediction  to  the medicine Budha. Originally,Tibetan medicine dates back to  the   pre-Buddhist  era. During the  Bon  period, various techniques  were   devised   andpracticed. With  the   coming  of Buddhism, medical knowledge became an integral  part  of  religious doctrines and monastic disciplane.
 

Some have suggested that the Buddha's key teaching of the Four Noble Truths was based on a medical paradigm, where by suffering,its cause, its suppression,and the method for its elimination find a parallel in  medicine  to  disease,its cause,health and the remedy.But actually  the  four  fold division that occurs in Caraka Samhita is different  from the Four Noble Truths."The best physician,one fit to treat king,is he whose knowledge  is  four  fold:(he knows) the cause(hetu,sympton(linga),cure(prasamana),and nonoccurence (apunarbhava) of diseases. Tibetan medicine continued to progress due  to  effort  of  Buddhist monks and the emphasis laid on it bu religion. In the process,it derived influences  from  various  external sources.The developement of tibetan system got an  impetus during the 7th & 8th centuries. At this  period  the  great Tibetan translator and scholar,Beru Tsana  translated  the "Ghyushi" teaching given by the Kashmiri scholar Chandrananda. It is said that spread of "Guhyu-shi" teaching  was not ripe for revelation at that period.
 

                     
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