What is Tibetan Medicine?
Tibetan Medicine is one of the world’s oldest healing traditions, that has been practiced for more than five thousand years in Tibet and the Himalayan region. It is a unique medical science that provides holistic health care to the body, mind and soul. Tibetan medicine is commonly known as gSowa Rigpa in Tibetan. gSowa means to heal or restore and Rigpa means the knowledge or science. Tibetan medicine is also a science, art and philosophy that provides a holistic health care to mankind. It is a science because its principles are enumerated in a systematic and logical framework based on an understanding of the body and the minds relationship to the environment. It is an art because the Tibetan healers use diagnostic techniques based on the creativity, insight, subtlety, love and compassion of the medical practitioner. And it is a philosophy because it explains the key Buddhist principles of impermanence, altruism, karma and ethics. Introduction to Tibetan Medicine The major goals of Tib
