Desi Sangye Gyatso

Kalon Sangye Gyatso (1653–1705) was the sixth regent of the 5th Dalai Lama (1617–1682), in the Ganden Phodrang government. He founded the Chagpori College of Medicine in 1694, a Traditional Tibetan medicine school for monks which grew in 1916 under the 13th Dalai Lama to include Astrology and Astronomy departments collectively called the Men-Tsee-Khang. He wrote the Blue Beryl medical treatise, and illustrated medical thankas. His name is sometimes written as Sangye Gyamtso and Sans-rGyas rGya-mTsho