Tendzin Phuntso’s Chemistry of Salts

摘要

＜正＞ An examination of large quantities of Tibetan datafor a project entitled “Alchemy and Alchemic Medi-cines of Tibet revealed that ancient Tibetan terminol-ogy for and classification of inorganic salts have muchin common with modern chemistry.This is particu-larly true of research conducted by Tendzin Phuntso（born in 1672 in Gongjo County,Chamdo,Tibet） andhis representative work,“gso rig gcesb dus rin chenphreng ba bzugs so”.This work summarizes Tibetanrecognition of inorganic salts in chemistry over thecourse of 1,000 years or more,and is of great signifi-cance in the world history of science and technolgy.