Two & one-half woodcut illus. 44 sheets, each folded into multiple pages. Oblong small 8vo (89 x 288 mm.), orig. stiff boards in concertina format (one loose). [Beijing]: [Nei fu 內府], 1617.

A very scarce bilingual — Tibetan and Chinese — Buddhist scripture published at the Ming Imperial Household in Beijing. Ours is one of two known copies, judging by WorldCat (1202247985). Our book is dedicated to Bhaiṣajyaguru, the healing Buddha. This Buddha “has a body more brilliant than the sun, which was the color of lapis lazuli (vaiḍūryamaṇi) and possessed the power to heal illness and physical... More