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Tibetan medicine. part I: Introduction to Tibetan medicine and the rGyud-bzi (Fourth Tantra)
Tibetan medicine is one example of a traditional cultural health care system. Until recently, geographic barriers have permitted this medical tradition to evolve in an uninterrupted way. The history, ...
The High Altitude Ethnobotany of the Rolwaling Sherpas
The article is based on the botanical collection, particularly medicinal plants and poisons, made by the author in Rolwaling and covers the high altitude ethno-botany of the Rolwaling Sherpas. Around ...
A Tibetan perspective on ethics, spirituality, and healing
The author provides a general overview of the Tibetan medical tradition's approach to disease, specifically focusing on how negative mental states like attachment, anger, and delusion are fundamental ...
Healing images : historical perspective
This chapter, from the book Healing images : The Role of Imagination in Health, takes a broad look at the use of imagery in across cultures from ancient times to the present. The author discuss...
Index to Articles in the K'ang-tsang Yen-chiu Yüeh-K'an (a Contribution to the Bibliography of Tibet)
An index of articles in the Chinese Tibetological magazine K'ang-tsang Yen-chiu Yüeh-K'an or "Hsik'ang-Tibet Research Monthly" published in China from 1946 to 1949. This periodical cover...
Alan Wallace online
B. Alan Wallace is a Buddhist scholar with over 30 years experience in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. After being a monk for 14 years in India, Europe, and America, Dr. Wallace obtained a degree in p...
The art of healing : a Tibetan Buddhist perspective
A lay-person's introduction to certain Buddhist dimensions of Tibetan medicine written by a Western Buddhist. Topics covered on this site include etiology, secular medicine in Tibet, the healing arts ...
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