The White Beryl manuscript paintings were created by a master artist commissioned by the Sakya court in the early – mid 18 th century. Still practiced today, these traditions were designed to offer prognostications ranging from geomancy to natal charts to marriage, health and death horoscopes, in order to explain the structure of the universe and the relationship between world and everything else. These elements were compiled into a comprehensive system known as the White Beryl treatise by the regent to both the Fifth and Sixth Dalai Lamas, Desi Sangye Gyatso (1653-1705). The Tibetan astrological tradition accumulated knowledge from many different traditions, including ancient Tibetan tradition, Chinese elemental astrology, Indian astrological systems, that incorporate elements of Western astrological knowledge, and the Buddhist Kalachakra (Wheel of Time) Tantra. White Beryl: Tibetan Divination Paintings
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