托林寺迦薩配殿藥師圖像重構 - 兼議13 - 15世紀西藏阿里地區藥師如來信仰與圖像配置=Reconstruction of the Bhai ajyaguru Images Combination in the br Gya rtsa lha khang at Tholing Monastery - Plus a Discussion on Image Combination and the Belief of Bhai ajyaguru in Ngari in Tibet during the 13th to the 15th Centuries
When Italian Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci investigated the brgya rtsa lha khang at the TholingMonastery in 1933 and 1935, the statues and wall paintings inside were still intact. Giuseppe Tucci and his companion, photographer Eugenio Ghersi, had already photographed a lot of wall paintings at that time, though these precious visual materials have unfortunately been kept unpublicized in the National Oriental Art Museum of Italy. It will take a long time to recompose the original image combination in the halls of the Tholing Monastery, as these photos contain only memories of a monastery which has since been lost to history. Starting with two photos taken by Eugenio Ghersi and cited by Deborah E. Klimburg Salter in her paper "The Tangka Painting Tradition in the Spiti River Valley," and combining with the wall paintings of Bhaisajyaguru in s Pangbka [’gram] Bar dkarpo and Byang dgon pa, all of which date back to the 13 th and 14 th centuries in Ngari(west Tibet), this paper attempts to study the image combination as it existed in the original Bhaisajyaguru hall,a side hall of the brgya rtsa lha khang, and discusses the belief surrounding this theme in 13 th century Ngari.
