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"The New Light on Tibetan Medicine series brings together Dr. Pasang Yonten's extensive educational materials for the first time. Building on five decades of study, clinical practice, and teaching, this set of comprehensive textbooks aims to provide a unique contemporary overview of the science of healing known as ""Sowa Rigpa."" No English-language publication of comparable scope has appeared so far. This series is therefore an essential guide and reference for students of Tibetan, Asian, and Buddhist medical traditions, as well as for health professionals, therapists, and researchers. Foundations is the first textbook of the New Light series. This beautifully illustrated volume introduces the Buddhist roots and historical development of Sowa Rigpa, as well as the structure of the most important Tibetan medical text: the Four Tantras (Gyüzhi). Based on this classic yet adding novel insights, the main focus of the book is the systematic explanation of the three humors, metabolism, embryology, and the functions of the organs, channels, and chakras. Summarized in the form of metaphorical tree diagrams and placed in the context of the physician's ethical code, these chapters provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding the gross and subtle physiology of the body-mind. New Light on Tibetan Medicine: Volume I - Foundations is clearly structured, packed with insightful figures and tables, and backed up by an extensive glossary of Tibetan terms, making this pioneering work easily accessible."

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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)"

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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.

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