Image: Bloodletting chart, Tibet Wellcome L0035125

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Description: Or Tibetan 114 (cropped). Chart indicating good and bad bloodletting days and when to guard against demons. Detail: The chart contains a sme ba (9 figures symbolising the elements in geomancy) in the centre with the Chinese pa-kua (8 trigrams) surrounded by 12 animals of months and years. Below this, symbols of 7 days of the week. Asian Collection Keywords: Astronomy; Animals; Chinese; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Divination; beast; Religion; Astrology; Medicine; Calendar; Mythology; Monsters; Creature
Title: Bloodletting chart, Tibet
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