The Historical Origin of Wang Yaoshan in Lhasa

Today's Wangyaoshan site used to be a Menbazha (Tibetan Medical College), which is also called Wang Yao Temple because of its religious nature. Sakyamuni can cure all diseases. According to legend, the King of Medicine is the incarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha. Since Tibetan medicine appeared among the Tibetan people during the Tubo Dynasty, this ancient knowledge has been circulated for more than 1000 years. In the 7th century, when Princess Wencheng married Tubo, she brought the China culture of the Tang Dynasty, including a book on traditional Chinese medicine called "The Complete Collection of Medicine". Later, Princess Jincheng remarried to Tubo and brought a medical book, Wang Yue Medical Clinic, to gradually integrate some theories and methods of Chinese medicine into Tibetan medicine. In the 8th century, Yuto, a famous "medical sage", went to India to study medicine, inherited and developed China medicine and Indian medicine, and wrote four medical codes. Wang Yao Temple gradually gathered a group of knowledgeable Tibetan doctors, and developed into a Tibetan medical institution in the 7th century. The literati who came here to make this small temple prosper day by day. /kloc-At the end of 0/7, Bharti Sanjie Gyatso built Menbazacang (Medical College) on the mountain to develop Tibetan medicine, and selected some lamas from various temples to study medical knowledge here. After the 1960s, Tibetan doctors who originally belonged to Wang Yao Temple entered Zikang and became the present Tibetan hospital. Its outpatient building is near Zituo Bridge in the west of Jokhang Temple. In memory of the ancestor of Tibetan medicine, this road was named Yutu Road.