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Tibetan Medicine in Europe – Italy
TME – Tibetan Medicine Education center is a non-profit organization located in Italy, dedicated to the transmission and preservation of traditional Tibetan medicine and its related sciences to the West. Its purpose is to not only teach the Tibetan medicine traditional concepts and salient characteristics, but also to share and be the witness of its contemporary […]
Tibetan Medicine in North America – U.S.A – West Coast
There are several places that you can get consultation or appropriate treatment with Tibetan Medicine, listed below are located in West Coast of the United States. Tibetan Wellness and Healing Center TIBETAN WELLNESS & HEALING CENTER (TWHC) offers alternative, complementary, and holistic or wholistic form of medicine and healing approaches in San Francisco and Daly […]
Tibetan Medicine in Europe – UK
Chunga Lhamo and two of her friends participate in a horticulture training organized at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. The aim of the training is to help Tibetan doctors face the challenge of cultivating medicinal plants that are quickly disappearing from the Tibetan Plateau. One of these plants is the blue Himalayan poppy, a plant that also […]
Tibetan Medicine in Tibet – Yushu
PLANT EXPEDITION Tibetan doctors and pharmacists prefer medicinal plants that are collected under the guidance of an experienced Tibetan doctor. This is the only way to ensure that the herbs are harvested at the right time and location as well as in the right mindset. In this short excerpt from Sitar Rose’s 2009 film Blue Poppy, Akong […]
Tibetan Medicine in Tibet – Xining
Tibetan Medicine Museum of China Amid a sea of factories in Xining’s Biotech Zone, there is one building that stands out: the Tibetan Medicine Museum of China, a grandiose structure that blends elements of traditional monasteries with contemporary Chinese tastes. The museum, established in 2006, is the brainchild of the Qinghai Arura Tibetan Medicine Group. […]
Tibetan Medicine in Tibet – Lhasa
T.A.R. TIBETAN MEDICINE FACTORY in Lhasa is the largest Tibetan medicine factory in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Workers wearing protective overalls and face masks are a regular sight in Tibetan medicine factories in China. The Chinese Drug Administration Law (2001) made “Good Manufacturing Practices” (GMP) a requirement for the production of all Tibetan medicines sold on the […]
Tibetan Medicine in Tibet – Shigatse/tsang
TASHILHUNPO MONASTERY HOSPITAL Tashilunpo Monastery has traditionally been the seat of the Panchen Lama, the second most important reincarnation line in the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism behind the Dalai Lama. In the mid-20th century, inspired by the example of the Mentsikhang (Institute of Medicine and Astrology) in Lhasa, the Tenth Panchen Lama inaugurated a […]
Tibetan Medicin in U.S.A. – The Second International Conference on Tibetan Medicine
“Tibetan Medicine highlights compassion in modern health care“ – By E. Tammy Kim, Al Jazeera America The American Tibetan Medical Association, Inc. (ATMA) is a nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Tibetan medicine. Since its formation in 2008, the organization has initiated a movement to preserve and promote the practice of Tibetan medicine (TM), […]
Tibetan Medicine in Europe – Switzerland
PADMA Inc. has been producing plant-based remedies and food supplements on the basis of Tibetan formulas in Switzerland since 1969. The company considers itself to be a proponent of integrative medicine, combines modern research and therapies of orthodox and complementary medicine with a holistic view of the human condition. The goal is a treatment adjusted to […]
Tibetan Medicine in Russia
Because of the aversion to religion that the seventy years of communism in Russia manifested, more than 150 Buddhist monasteries and temples of local Mongolian tribes were destroyed and thousands of lamas were killed or imprisoned. Each of the monasteries had a medical department or, at the least, a traditional doctor. The first Buddhist temple in […]
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