Modern research of tibetan medicine

Tibetan Medicine

This paper explains Tibetan Medicine and its adherence to the tradition. The author has also analysed its historicalbackground and its relationship to Ayurveda.

Foundations of Tibetan medicine

The issue is important, not least because "management" was the basis for moral treatment, and Foucault-whose view ofit has been followed so widely and uncritically-failed to grasp the cultural basis of that approach in England. For someone out ofcontrol, being controlled was the first step in the restoration of sanity, but Pargeter lays emphasis on the need for this to be done always in a human...

Goiter in Tibetan Medicine

The visit of two Tibetan physicians provided a unique opportunity to gain insight into a practice of medicine very different from that of Western civilization. Initial discussions indicated that the practice of medicine and mysticism were inextricably interwoven in the Tibetan culture. Accordingly, the focus of the study was directed to goiter, which is both common in the Himalayas and easy to ...

Tibetan Medicine in Gyalthang

Introduction: The Development of Modern Tibetan Studies

On September 27th, 1987, a small group of monks staged a demonstration in Lhasa which once again drew the attention of the world to Tibet. In the following 18 months thirty or more such incidents occurred in different parts of the region, leading to the imposition of martial law by the Chinese government in the capital in March 1989, the first time since the creation of the People's Republic of...