In March 1996, a medical conference took place in Dharamsala bringing together doctors and researchers of Tibetan medicine from the Tibetan exile community in order to discuss this medical system in the age of globalization. The ‘Conference on Clinical Research in Tibetan Medicine’ (Bod sman nad bcos nyams zhib kyi tshogs chen) took place on the initiative of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and was organized by the Research and Development Department of the Men-Tsee-Khang (MTK). Doctors from all over India assembled in Dharamsala. Most of them were trained in Tibetan medicine, some of them in biomedicine and a few in