In Buddhist teaching, there are five precepts, six precepts, or even ten precepts, including forbidding the taking of life, stealing, sexual indulgence and use of liquor.
Also banned were dancing and listening or watching such a performance;none should live in a magnificent house or possess luxurious fittings etc. All these demands or precepts go far beyond the demands of a regular physician.
Dung kar blo bzang 'phil las, On the Unified Political-Religion System of Tibet, Bulletin of Qinghai College ofNationalities, (Social Science edition), 1982 (1): 20.Since in Tibet, only lamas could be physicians, the demands on them far
exceeded the normal medical ethics. This was a unique condition in a society of unified politics and religion, in which lama and physician were one and the same.
Here, we may raise the question: why is it that Tibetan medicine place such heavy demands on the physician? The answer is basically religious. Under the unique conditions of Tibet, since Buddhist teachings claim that all things are void, and the misery and pain of diseases are retribution for crimes committed in a previous life, while fortune and happiness depend upon accumulating good deeds in the present life, so as to arrive on the other shore of paradise. This is exactly as what the chapter "On Physicians" in Rgyud bzhi says:"The temporary fruits give to the fortune of this life, then comes all prestige, and happiness (To seek) the perpetual fruits, one has to discard cunning/whatever you do
is to care for the sick.
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