Tibetan Style of Medicine
"In this age made totally dark By the five great
degenerations,The sentient being constantaly tossed. In
waves of diseases,sorrow & pain.Thus Budha out of great
compassion,Emanates as Bendurya,the Medicine Guru, To
shine as a sun in the skies of the world,And dry up the
water giving birth to all ills." A Benediction to the
medicine Budha.
Originally,Tibetan medicine dates
back to the pre-Buddhist era.
During the Bon period, various
techniques were devised and
practiced.With the coming of
Buddhism,medical knowledge became
an integral part of religious
doctrines and monastic disciplane.
Some have suggested that the Buddha's key teaching of the
Four Noble Truths was based on a medical paradigm,whereby
suffering,its cause,its suppression,and the methodfor its
elimination find a parallel in medicine to disease,its
cause,health and the remedy.But actually the four fold
division that occurs in Caraka Samhita is different from
the Four Noble Truths."The best physician,one fit to treat
king,is he whose knowledge is four fold:(he knows) the
cause(hetu,sympton(linga),cure(prasamana),and nonoccurence
(apunarbhava) of diseases.
Tibetan medicine continued to progress due to effort of
Buddhist monks and the emphasis laid on it bu religion. In
the process,it derived influences from various external
sources.The developement of tibetan system got an impetus
during the 7th & 8th centuries.At this period the great
Tibetan translator and scholar,Beru Tsana translated the
"Ghyushi" teaching given by the Kashmiri scholar Chandra-
nanda.It is said that spread of "Guhyu-shi" teaching was
not ripe for revelation at that period.
For further information please contact:
The Tibetan medical & Astro Institute,
Gangchen Kyishon,
Khara Danda Road,
Dharamsala-176215,Dist. kangra,
Himachal Pradesh
The institute has various branches
in various part of India
Some of them are
Qrs. No. VIC-1/2,Unit-1,
(Near Chowdhary market),
Bhubaneswar,Orissa
Dehradun
C/o Tibetan Welfare Office,P.O.
Dekyling Tibetan Colony,
Kulhan,Sahastradhara Road,
Dehradun Dist.,
Utter Pradesh,
Delhi
13,Jaipur Estate,
East Nizamuddin,
New Delhi 110 013
Gangtok
Ranghasa Building,
namnang Road,Gangtok
Sikkim
Ladakh
C/o SOS TCV School,
P.O. Choglamsar-194101,
leh Dist.,Ladakh,
Jammu & Kashmir
Mysore
Dhondanling T.S.,Belacopy,
P.O. Tibetan Settlement,
Kolegal Taluk 571 457
Mysore Dist.,Karnataka
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