A blog by Michael Argenziano, Tibetan Medicine: Past, Present, Future An excerpt: Ancient Tibetan Medicine: From Bön to Buddhism Medicine has been believed to be an integral part of Tibetan culture as early as the inception of the Bön tradition, centuries before the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. According to several Bön texts, the founder of the Bön religion, … [Read more...]
The Medicine of the Mind
Object biography by Gloriana Xia on the Medicine Buddha … [Read more...]
Cosmological Scroll
Object biography by Corn Bronsther, view HERE. Introduction: "The Tibetan medical tradition represents an interesting intersection between fundamental Buddhist ideas and the empirical observation of the human body. Janet Gyatso writes about the medical tradition: “How can one adjudicate between the Buddha’s word and empirical observation? In Tibet these questions were never … [Read more...]
Neuroscience & Tibet
A website 'Neuroscience & Tibet' by Juliana Remark and Lindsey Remark. About: "A key component of Buddhist belief is that meditation literally transforms the mind. Thus, Buddhists are highly interested in scientific advances that could possibly help explain and/or provide evidence for this phenomenon. The question as to whether meditative phenomena have a biological … [Read more...]
A Guide to Tibetan Medicine
A website as an introductory guide to Tibetan medicine, by Luke Thorsell. In Tibet, medicine is one of the five major Tibetan sciences, and is known as gSo-ba Rig-pa – the science of healing. It's based mostly on the information contained in the Four Medical Tantras (rGyud-bzhi), the most prominent and authoritative Tibetan medical text. The four tantras are the root tantra, … [Read more...]