Treasury of Tibetan Medical History (Bod kyi gso ba rig pa'i lo rgyus kyi bang mdzod): The Song for Remembering Guru Yutok (G.yu thog bla ma dran glu)

by Pasang Yonten Arya, Jan M. A. van der Valk (Foreword by)

Overview

Treasury of Tibetan Medical History is a facsimile of Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya's award-winning chronological account of the ancient origins, early development, flourishing, and spread of Sowa Rigpa from prehistoric times up until the twentieth century. Calligraphed in block-style script and first printed in 1989, this unprecedented textual research provides a comprehensive overview of the major time periods, events, and characters that have shaped the dynamic history of Tibetan medicine. Besides highlighting the underestimated contributions of the Bön and revealed treasure traditions and tracing the lineages of all influential medical schools, this monograph is also enriched with numerous biographical sketches of renowned scholars and physicians. Containing a unique chronicle of Sowa Rigpa's survival in Indian exile, as well as the transition to modern Tibetan medical education, it is both a landmark reference and a primary historical source.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782970146421
Publisher:	Bedurya Publications
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.71(d)
Language:	Tibetan

About the Author

Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya (Menrampa) is an internationally renowned senior practitioner, scholar, and teacher of Sowa Rigpa. He trained at Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala, where he graduated first of his class in 1977 and served as assistant pharmacist, professor, and college principal until 1989. After lecturing at the Central Institute for Buddhist Studies (Ladakh, 1989-1991), he moved to Europe, where he acted as guest professor in Tibetan medicine for DÄGfA (the German Medical Association for Acupuncture) for more than two decades. He co-founded and directs the New Yuthok Institute (Italy) as well as TME - Tibetan Medicine Education Center (Switzerland), through which he has instructed hundreds of students on clinical, yogic, and tantric knowledge and practices that balance the body-mind.

Dr. Jan M. A. van der Valk is a scholar-practitioner trained in the fields of biology (University of Leuven), ethnobotany and anthropology (University of Kent), and Tibetan studies (Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University). For his PhD dissertation in anthropology (2017) and currently as a postdoctoral researcher in the Austrian Science Fund project "Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa and Buddhist Ritual" (University of Vienna), he has mainly focused on how natural substances are transformed into potent medicines by working with traders, manufacturers, and materia medica experts in Switzerland, India and Nepal. Van der Valk has been learning Tibetan medicine under Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya since 2012, started his own herbal dispensary in Belgium in 2017, and is the editor in chief of Bedurya Publications.

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Winner of the Best Book in Ladakhi award, Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture, and Languages.

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