Category Tibetan Medicine in the World

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 […]

Tibetan Medicine in North America – Canada

Practitioners in Canada: Tsering Dorjee Dekhang is a qualified Tibetan doctor, currently lives in Toronto, Canada, and has presented lecture on Tibetan Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has successfully completed six years Tibetan doctor’s degree (Kachupa Degree) from the Tibetan Medical College of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, India. He is also a licensed Holistic […]

Films about Tibetan Medicine – The Blue Buddha: Lost Secrets of Tibetan Medicine

Twelve hundred years ago the people of Tibet developed a comprehensive medical system. They understood how the mind can powerfully affect the body. They knew subtle ways of changing the body¹s chemistry with medicines made from plants and minerals. They blessed their medicines in lengthy rituals. And they encoded this knowledge in a series of […]