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Author: Pasang Yonten Arya ,
Jan M a Van Der Valk
Publisher: Bedurya Publications
Imprint: Bedurya Publications
Volume: I
Dimensions:
Width: 21.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 27.30cm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9782970146438
ISBN 10: 2970146436
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 25 April 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
New Light on Tibetan Medicine is a welcome, long-awaited, and thorough introduction to Tibet's medical legacy written from the perspective of an eminent Tibetan medical practitioner. It offers Pasang Yonten Arya's knowledgeable commentary based on decades of personal study and skills in teaching Sowa Rigpa in Europe and beyond. Foundations-the first volume of the New Light series-is beautifully designed, clearly written, and well-structured. Presenting a contemporary example of cross-cultural translation in action, it indeed sheds new light on a continuously evolving medical tradition. Dr. Barbara Gerke, social and medical anthropologist (University of Vienna), author of Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice (Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021)
"""New Light on Tibetan Medicine is a welcome, long-awaited, and thorough introduction to Tibet's medical legacy written from the perspective of an eminent Tibetan medical practitioner. It offers Pasang Yonten Arya's knowledgeable commentary based on decades of personal study and skills in teaching Sowa Rigpa in Europe and beyond. Foundations-the first volume of the New Light series-is beautifully designed, clearly written, and well-structured. Presenting a contemporary example of cross-cultural translation in action, it indeed sheds new light on a continuously evolving medical tradition."" Dr. Barbara Gerke, social and medical anthropologist (University of Vienna), author of Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice (Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021)"
Author Information
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 as a postdoctoral researcher (University of Vienna), he has mainly focused on how natural ingredients are transformed into potent Sowa Rigpa medicines. 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.
