A Brief History of Ancient Science and Technology in Tibet

Author: Zhang Tiansuo
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Publish Date: 1999-07-01
Features: Science and culture are like twin brothers. The sages and laboring people of various ethnic groups in Tibet not only created a unique regional and ethnic Tibetan culture but also, through repeated practice over long years of understanding and transforming nature, developed and accumulated a wealth of Tibetan scientific and technological knowledge adapted to the geographical environment of the Tibetan Plateau, greatly benefiting the production and life of the Tibetan people. The main purpose of this book is to provide a relatively comprehensive, systematic, yet concise discussion of the history of the emergence and development of ancient Tibetan science and technology. The content of ancient Tibetan science and technology is rich and covers a wide range of fields. A Concise History of Ancient Tibetan Science and Technology discusses the subject in seven chapters based on available materials. The chapters include Tibetan agricultural and pastoral production techniques, medicine, astronomy and calendar, ancient architecture, mathematics, and craftsmanship. This is a specialized work on the concise history of ancient Tibetan science and technology, aiming to provide a relatively comprehensive, systematic, yet concise discussion of its emergence and development. From this book, one can see the process and overall picture of the development of ancient Tibetan science and technology, learn about the scientific and technological figures, events, achievements, and accumulated experience that emerged in Tibetan history. In a certain sense, this book is a summary of Tibet's past science and technology. Its outstanding features are two: First, it is the first comprehensive, complete, and systematic introduction to the history of the development of ancient Tibetan science and technology and the achievements it has made; second, a significant portion of the materials used in the book come from Tibetan classical texts, making them particularly valuable.