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Videos & listening
Carefully chosen videos and recordings: museums, universities, monasteries, official sites. These are plain links that open on the publisher's site. No video is embedded on this page.
Looking at the art
- Medicine Buddha Palace by Smarthistory · Rubin Museum of Himalayan ArtCurator Elena Pakhoutova (Rubin Museum) and Beth Harris (Smarthistory) read, step by step, a copy of the first of the 17th-century Tibetan medical paintings: the Medicine Buddha's palace.
- Himalayan Art Up Close: Medicine Buddha Palace by Rubin Museum of Himalayan ArtThe museum's own page for the video, with the artwork record and further reading.
- Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo) by SmarthistoryIn front of the huge Chinese wall painting of c. 1319 at the Met, Jennifer McIntire and Steven Zucker tell its story and what it shows.
- The Artist Project: James Siena by The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe painter James Siena looks at the same Met wall painting with an artist's eye: a free, personal response.
Understanding
- The Rubin Daily Offering Week 2 Ep5: Tibetan Medicine with Tawni Tidwell by Rubin Museum of Himalayan ArtTawni Tidwell, an anthropologist and Tibetan medicine specialist, introduces this medical tradition in a short Rubin Museum episode.
- Being Human in a Buddhist World by Harvard Divinity SchoolA lecture by Janet Gyatso, historian of classical Tibetan medicine, whose work is cited in our Knowledge pages.
- Lum medicinal bathing of Sowa Rigpa (Representative List, 2018) by UNESCO, Intangible Cultural Heritage · © Department of Culture of Tibet Autonomous RegionUNESCO's official video on Lum medicinal bathing, inscribed as intangible heritage in 2018.
Visiting in pictures
- Videos & photographs of cultural properties -Yakushiji Temple- in Japanese with English subtitles by Nara Prefecture World Heritage OfficeThe cultural properties of Nara's Yakushi-ji, filmed and photographed for the prefecture (Japanese with English subtitles).
- 映像で見る薬師寺 (Yakushiji Temple Official Web Site) by Yakushi-ji (site officiel)The temple's own video page, on its official site (in Japanese).
Listening
- Audio Sutras (1): Medicine Buddha Sutra (Part 1): The Twelve Vows of Medicine Buddha by Fo Guang Shan English Dharma ServicesAn audio reading, in English, of the opening of the Medicine Buddha Sutra and its twelve vows, by Fo Guang Shan monastery.
- Medicine Buddha Puja With Sera Mey Monks (Chanted in Tibetan) by Guhyasamaja Buddhist Center (FPMT)A Medicine Buddha puja chanted in Tibetan by monks of Sera Mey monastery: to hear the liturgy as it is practised.
- 01 Medicine Buddha Retreat: Symbolism of Medicine Buddha 07-03-21 by Sravasti AbbeyThe first teaching of a retreat at Sravasti Abbey, on the symbolism of the Medicine Buddha.
On film
- THE MEDICINE BUDDHA Official Trailer (2019) Khamba Lama Natsagdorj by BritFlicksThe trailer of Benjamin Johns's documentary, narrated by Ben Kingsley, on Khamba Lama Natsagdorj in Mongolia.
Ritual recordings are offered for their cultural interest; they do not replace any medical advice.
Links checked on 15 October 2026 (title and channel verified).