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In this episode Robert Thurman is joined by Tenzin Metok, founder of the Medicine Buddha App, which allows you to book online consultations with Tibetan doctors and wellness practitioners. Through THUS | Menla's sponsorship, this app will allow you to make donations to directly sponsor the medical training of aspiring Tibetan doctors at the Men-Tsee-Khang in India! Men-Tsee-Khang is the largest and oldest Tibetan Medical & Astro-science Institute, established in Tibet by HH the XIII Dalai Lama in 1916 and re-established by the XIV Dalai Lama in India in 1961. To educate each doctor it costs $5000, plus $500 in administrative and other fees. When you choose to use the Medicine Buddha app you are supporting a 100% Tibetan employed team and helping to expand the influence and reach of Tibetan culture internationally. We thank you for your generous support, if you cannot donate, please share this podcast episode and download the free ap. Every share, download, mention and donation helps!
In this two part podcast Professor Thurman discusses the methodologies of Traditional Himalayan Medicine or Sowa Rigpa's Galenic, Chinese, and Ayurvedic roots detailing the diagnostic tools of urine analysis, pulse reading and dialog between doctor and patient. Using the visual medical thankgas depicting "The Four Tantras" Robert A.F. Thurman’s begins this week's podcast with stories from his early days as studying Tibetan Medicine with the Dalai Lama's personal physician and founder of the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute (Men-Tsee-Khang) in Dharamshala, India Yeshe Dhondon, gives an explanation of the Tibetan Phrase "Raising the Banner of Victory on the Mountain Peak" before elaborating the framework and concepts found in the analytic Buddhist Medical sciences known as Sowa Rigpa. “Tibetan Medicine 101 : Medicine Buddha : Raising The Banner of Victory on The Mountain Peak – Ep. 170″ of the Bob Thurman Podcast is an excerpt from the Force For Good Class “Medicine Buddha: Buddhist Inner Sciences” held at Tibet House US in New York City on November 29, 2017. “It is the gift of scientifically as well spiritually enlightened healers, who not only understand what ails us but also know how to help us understand ourselves and become more conscious about our own health and how to sustain it.First priority for the enlightened healers is awakening us patients to the way our own body-mind complex works in terms we can easily understand. The whole point is to expand our vision of ourselves as beings in a nature that is luckily more beneficial than harmful, especially if we understand how it works.” Robert A.F. Thurman Tibetan Book of Health: Sowa Rigpa, The Science of Healing ‘A Force For Good’ is a Tibet House US course to further the Dalai Lama’s contemporary world initiatives, from His Holiness’ American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Mind & Life Institute science dialogues (Universe in a Single Atom) and His creation of Abhidharma 2.0 through the “Science for Monks” programs, his “secular ethics” (Ethics for the New Millennium and Beyond Religion), His nonviolent approach to conflict resolution, including His Nobel Peace Laureate activities to seek dialogue and a win-win reconciliation with China in the face of the ongoing ethnicidal policies in Tibet (Freedom in Exile and Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of Tibet’s Dalai Lama) & along with his emphasis on positive activism (A New Reality: Charter of Universal Responsibility). To watch the full video archive of this teaching please visit: www.tibethouse.us. To listen to more archive recordings from from past Robert AF Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To Learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us. Full access begins at $2 a month. The song ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved. "Tibetan Medicine 101 : Medicine Buddha : Raising The Banner of Victory on The Mountain Peak – Ep. 170″ of the Bob Thurman Podcast” Photo via www.dalailama.com.
In this two part podcast Professor Thurman discusses the Galenic, Chinese, and Ayurvedic methodologies found in Traditional Himalayan Medicine or Sowa Rigpa’s “Science of Healing” detailing the powerful diagnostic tools of urine analysis, pulse reading and dialog between doctor and patient which have proven to prevent illness, cure illness, extend life, and cultivate happiness. Using the visual medical thankgas depicting the “Four Medical Tantras” (Tib. རྒྱུད་བཞི་ “gyüd zhi”): the Root Tantra, the Explanatory Tantra, the Oral Transmission Tantra, and the Final Tantra) Robert A.F. Thurman begins this week’s podcast with stories from his early days studying with Yeshe Dhondon, the Dalai Lama‘s personal physician and founder of the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute (Men–Tsee–Khang) in Dharamshala, India, giving an explanation of the Tibetan phrase “Raising the Banner of Victory on the Mountain Peak” used by Sowa Rigpa practitioners before elaborating the framework and concepts found in the analytic Buddhist sciences preserved in Tibet. This Tibetan Medicine 101 podcast on Traditional Himalayan Medicine’s Subtle Anatomy system includes in-depth explanations of: the Five Internal Elements (Space, Wind, Fire, Water and Earth), The Five External Elements (Wood, Fire, Metal, Water and Earth), The Three Humors (Wind/Loong, Bile/ Tripa and Phlegm/ Beken), The Five Chakras,The Three Channels and overall cosmology used in Sowa Rigpa and in Buddhist Philosophy. To view images of the Blue Beryl Medical paintings please visit: www.himalayanart.org. “Tibetan Medicine 101 : Medicine Buddha : Raising The Banner of Victory on The Mountain Peak – Ep. 170″ of the Bob Thurman Podcast is an excerpt from the Force For Good Class “Medicine Buddha: Buddhist Inner Sciences” held at Tibet
Keynote talks at the 2017 Tibetan Medicine Conference on Mind-Body Health are presented here, including Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School who describes his research with natural products to prevent and treat Alzheimer's; Yumba of Lhasa on the Great Treasury of Tibetan Medical and Astronomical Texts; and Janet Gyatso of the Harvard Divinity School on the Challenges for the Study of Tibetan Medicine. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 33044]
Keynote talks at the 2017 Tibetan Medicine Conference on Mind-Body Health are presented here, including Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School who describes his research with natural products to prevent and treat Alzheimer's; Yumba of Lhasa on the Great Treasury of Tibetan Medical and Astronomical Texts; and Janet Gyatso of the Harvard Divinity School on the Challenges for the Study of Tibetan Medicine. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 33044]
Keynote talks at the 2017 Tibetan Medicine Conference on Mind-Body Health are presented here, including Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School who describes his research with natural products to prevent and treat Alzheimer's; Yumba of Lhasa on the Great Treasury of Tibetan Medical and Astronomical Texts; and Janet Gyatso of the Harvard Divinity School on the Challenges for the Study of Tibetan Medicine. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 33044]
Keynote talks at the 2017 Tibetan Medicine Conference on Mind-Body Health are presented here, including Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School who describes his research with natural products to prevent and treat Alzheimer's; Yumba of Lhasa on the Great Treasury of Tibetan Medical and Astronomical Texts; and Janet Gyatso of the Harvard Divinity School on the Challenges for the Study of Tibetan Medicine. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 33044]
Keynote talks at the 2017 Tibetan Medicine Conference on Mind-Body Health are presented here, including Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School who describes his research with natural products to prevent and treat Alzheimer's; Yumba of Lhasa on the Great Treasury of Tibetan Medical and Astronomical Texts; and Janet Gyatso of the Harvard Divinity School on the Challenges for the Study of Tibetan Medicine. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 33044]
Keynote talks at the 2017 Tibetan Medicine Conference on Mind-Body Health are presented here, including Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School who describes his research with natural products to prevent and treat Alzheimer's; Yumba of Lhasa on the Great Treasury of Tibetan Medical and Astronomical Texts; and Janet Gyatso of the Harvard Divinity School on the Challenges for the Study of Tibetan Medicine. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 33044]