Tibetan medicine, also known as Sowa Rigpa (the science of healing) teaches that the purpose of life is to be happy. This Thangka painting is the first of a composition of the seventy-nine sets of paintings of the Blue Beryl Medical Charts, the most important text of traditional Tibetan medicine also called Sowa Rigpa. Medicine Buddha Bhaisajyaguru is depicted in the center of a colorful and complex mandala sitting inside a palace in the city of Sudarshana, the ‘city of medicine’.
