Duojierenqing

01 · Lineage & Regional School

Duojierenqing, Male, Tibetan, from Tibet, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of Tibetan Medicine (Ⅸ-9). The tradition is documented in Tibet. Within the regional tradition and school record of Tibetan Medicine in Tibet: Sowa Rigpa is a body of knowledge and practice, based on traditional Tibetan culture, for understanding the phenomena of life, the laws of disease, and strategies of recuperation. Created and developed in adaptation to the plateau environment and in interaction with nature and history, it has been transmitted from generation to generation. It is one of the five fields of knowledge of Tibetan culture, mainly distributed in the Tibetan-inhabited areas of Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan in China, with the agricultural and pastoral areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as its core transmission region, and it has two major schools, the Northern and the Southern. By the 8th century CE, it had formed a complete theoretical system and unique methods of diagnosis and treatment. The research method of Sowa Rigpa theory runs through the objective analysis of the origin, essence, and characteristics of the five basic elements and the changes produced when different elements combine (empirical verification); this understanding is sublimated into the physician's subjective intuitive grasp of the internal laws of the five elements (inner realization). On the basis of a profound analysis of the characteristics and interactions of the five elements, it understands the relationship between the human body and mind and between humanity and the universe, forming its own distinctive holistic view.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

The bearer record for Duojierenqing is anchored in the documented technical standards of Tibetan Medicine in Tibet. Within the documented technical tradition of Tibetan Medicine in Tibet: With the spread of Tibetan culture, it has gradually radiated to Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Beijing, and other places, and is shared by multiple ethnic groups. Sowa Rigpa is theoretically grounded in Bon medicine and has been continuously refined in different historical periods. Its theory is based on the holistic view and philosophical thought of the high harmony and unity of the human body and mind and of humanity and the universe. It analyzes the dynamic laws of the five elements and their interactions, taking them as the common material-energy foundation of humanity and nature; in the human body these correspond to the three life energies of "Lung" (wind), "Tripa" (fire), and "Beken" (earth and water). Sowa Rigpa holds that the continuation of life and health is a dynamic equilibrium formed by the unity of opposites of the three life energies; when this equilibrium is disrupted, disease arises. Sowa Rigpa diagnosis understands the state of balance and health of the human body through observation, inquiry, and palpation. It regulates the balance of life through methods such as diet, behavior, medication, medicinal bathing, fire moxibustion, and the elevation of the mind. This heritage project embodies the Tibetan people's views of life, nature, and the universe. It is integrated with cultural customs such as astronomy and calendrical calculation, ritual beliefs, and behavioral norms, and is widely disseminated through traditional cultural expressions such as Tibetan opera, thangka, and murals. This heritage project plays a guiding role in the people's medical care and health. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Internal evidence on the five elements": Its method moves from objective analysis of the five elements and their combinations to the physician's intuitive grasp of their inner law, and from there to the relation between body and cosmos. "Balance of wind, bile and phlegm": Wind, bile and phlegm are the body's three energies; health is their dynamic balance, and illness begins where the balance breaks. "Inspection, inquiry and palpation": Diagnosis proceeds by inspection, inquiry and palpation to learn the state of balance, seeking the point of disturbance rather than naming a disease. "Regulating through diet, conduct and medicine": Balance is regulated through diet, conduct, medicine, bathing, fire and the raising of the mind—all everyday measures rather than emergency ones.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

In 2025, Duojierenqing was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for Tibetan Medicine, with Tibet as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of Tibetan Medicine in Tibet: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2021 (batch 5), with Tibet as its declared area, and Tibet Mass Art Center (Tibet Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Center) as its safeguarding unit. Since the project was inscribed in the national inventory, its declared area and safeguarding unit have carried out documentation, transmission and presentation within the national safeguarding framework. Together, the inventory record and the project archive form the public documentary basis for the bearer’s transmission practice.

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. Duojierenqing (Tibet) · China ICH Official Project Archive
2. Duojierenqing · China ICH Official Archive