The category of doctors in the Treasury of Lives includes individuals who received medical training and practiced the healing arts, in a fashion appropriate for their time, and who self-identified or are described in the historical literature as medical practitioners.
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The TBRC RID number refers to the unique ID assigned by the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC.org) to each historical figure in their database of Tibetan literature.