Old Tibetan Wooden Texts Found Used as Roofing
A Tibetan peasant who was knocking down a dilapidated house in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa recently discovered that the wooden blocks that had been used as roofing materials were engraved texts of centuries-old Tibetan books.
The 370 blocks included parts of an encyclopedia of Tibetan medicine, the history of Tibetan medical science and other books of the period of the fifth Dalai Lama more than 300 years ago, the New China News Agency reported here.
The texts had disappeared during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when the house was built.
They were given to the region’s hospital of Tibetan medicine.
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