Panel 25: Preservation and Development of Tibetan Medicine

 

 

PANEL 25: PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF

TIBETAN MEDICINE

Convenor: Mingji Cuomo

MONDAY 22 JULY

   
9:00-9:30 From Zootherapy to “Ahimsa” Medicine – Shifting attitudes towards animals in Tibetan medicine in exile

Catherine Schuetze

9:30-10:00 བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་བ་རྱིག་པའྱི་གནའ་དཔེ་འཚོལ་བསྡུ་དང་དག་སྱིག་པར་སྐྲུན་ཐད་ཀྱི་གེང་མོལ། On the collection, editing and publication of old medical treatises

Duojie

10:00-10:30 Recognition of Death and Care for the Dying in Tibetan Medicine

SangeeBohm and Pema Rapten

10:30 – 11.00

Tea and coffee

11.00-11:30 Katie Ottaway

A History of Tibetan Botany based on Tibetan materia medica

11:30-12:00 snying ’thibs nad kyi ngos ’dzin dang gso thabs skor rob tsam gleng ba /

Wanma (Pema)

12:00-12:30 Standardization in Tibetan Medical Research

Mingji Cuomo

12:30–2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:30 Fire therapies in Tibetan Medecine applied in the West

Elise Mandine

2:30-3:00 Golden Turtle གསེར་རུས་སྦལ Iconography in Tibetan Medicine: The Medical Classic Zhu-Xi(Rgyud bzi རྒྱུད་བཙི): The Turtle Urinary Grid and Kidney Disease

Michael Santaro

3:00-3:30 Tibetan Sphygmology: The Yellow Emperor, the Moon King, and the Four Tantras

William McGrath

3:30 – 4:00

Tea and Coffee

4:00 – 4:30 Present Situation and Prospects of Tibetan Medicine in Amdo Area

Huadan Norsang

4:30 – 5:00 Mind and Body Approach in Tibetan Healing Science

Rinchen Dondrub

5:00 – 5:30 The Analysis and Practical Methods of Healing and Rejuvenation for the Elderly

rDo rje ’tsho / Duo jie cuo