The chapters in this book are innovative in the multi-dimensional picture that they present of the interaction, over a wide range of places and times, between Tibetan modes of healing and the European-derived tradition of biomedicine. They are innovative in another respect as well; as Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna Craig announce in their Introduction, this volume is intended to present an account that is based on the sensibility ofsowa rigpa, the Tibetan ‘science of healing’, rather than that of biomedicine, and that takessowa rigpa, not biomedicine, as its epistemological starting point. In this closing chapter, I