Tangka Angwengjiangcuo

01 · Lineage & Regional School

Tangka Angwengjiangcuo, Male, Tibetan, from Ganzizangzuzizhi, Sichuan, is a first-batch national representative bearer of Tibetan Medicine (Ⅸ-9). The tradition is documented in Ganzizangzuzizhi, Sichuan. Within the regional tradition and school record of Tibetan Medicine in Ganzizangzuzizhi, Sichuan: Ganzi Prefecture is known on the map of Tibetan medicine as the home of the Southern school: the Kham belt of Ganzi in Sichuan, Diqing in Yunnan, Qamdo in Tibet, and Yushu in Qinghai forms a continuous plateau of about 550,000 square kilometers, where Tibetan diagnostic methods and prescriptions have their own distinctive style, and the distinction between the Northern and Southern schools is primarily discerned from this region. The Southern school once became the backbone of Tibetan medicine, leading its inheritance and advancement; it was not until the line of Siduo Quejijiong Lie that the two schools gradually merged into one. Between the 12th and 15th centuries AD, Tibetan medicine developed into a Northern school, represented by Xiangba Langjia Zhasang, and a Southern school, represented by Suka Niangni Dorje. The Southern-school Tibetan medicine scholars of the early 19th century, outstandingly represented by Jiayang Qingze Jiangbu and others, brought about unprecedented development in Tibetan medicine.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

In long-term clinical practice of Tibetan medicine, he summarized the academic theories and methods of his predecessors and, combining them with his own clinical experience, developed distinctive therapeutic methods for the diseases of the plateau populations of the Tibetan regions. He presided over the preparation of Renqing Zuota on many occasions and has published more than twenty papers in journals at various levels and at academic conferences. Within the documented technical tradition of Tibetan Medicine in Ganzizangzuzizhi, Sichuan: Historically, Tibetan medicine formed Northern and Southern schools. Ganzi Prefecture is one of the birthplaces of Tibetan medicine and the home of the Southern school. Historically, the Tibetan medicine centered on Kham was called the Southern school of Tibetan medicine. The Kham region includes Ganzi Prefecture in Sichuan, Diqing Prefecture in Yunnan, the Qamdo region in Tibet, and Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai, with a total area of 550,000 square kilometers. The Southern school of Tibetan medicine was inherited and developed by the Tibetan medical scholars Jieba Zeweng, Shijia Wangqiu, the Fifth Dalai Lama, Damu Menranba Losang Qub, and others; it was not until the time of Siduo Quejijiong Lie that the Northern and Southern schools gradually merged into one. The Southern school once became the backbone of Tibetan medicine, leading the inheritance and advancement of the entire discipline. With the harm to human health caused by environmental degradation, the toxic side effects of chemical drugs, and the limitations these drugs face in treating disease, humanity has increasingly come to recognize the important role of Tibetan medicine in health care. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Preparation of Rinchen Zuota": The mother preparation called Rinchen Zuota turns on detoxifying heavy metals and matching them safely—both inheritors are recorded as having overseen its production. "Zuota Dezi Ma": A formula built on the zuota preparations, studied under national and provincial programmes for its effect on chronic gastritis. "Tibetan treatment of cardiovascular disease": Where earlier theory met personal experience, the physician built an approach for cardiovascular disease that sat alongside his work on digestion, diabetes and gynaecology. "The northern and southern schools": From the twelfth to the fifteenth century Tibetan medicine split into a northern school represented by Xiangba Langjiazasang and a southern one represented by Suoka Niangniduoj.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

Male, Tibetan ethnicity, born in 1925 in Dege, Sichuan, and deceased in 2008. A national representative bearer of Tibetan Medicine (the Southern School Tibetan medicine of Ganzi Prefecture), a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; chief Tibetan medicine physician at the Tibetan Medicine Hospital of Ganzi Prefecture, and a recipient of the special government allowance of the State Council. From childhood he studied Tibetan pharmaceutical knowledge under such renowned physicians as Zhamu Laji. At the age of nineteen he went specifically to Tibet to study Tibetan medicine under the famous Tibetan medical masters Qinrao Luobu and others. He mastered the essence of both the Southern and Northern schools of Tibetan medicine, and thereafter worked continuously in clinical Tibetan medicine, personnel training, scientific research, and pharmaceutical production.

04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier

05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage

National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.

06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography

1. Tangka Angwengjiangcuo · National Representative Bearer Archive