The third section of this volume explores the ways in which Tibetan medicine is used and interpreted by practitioners, patients and researchers. As the subtitle indicates, the context in which each of these chapters’ ethnographic data emerges makes important observations about the flexibility ofsowa rigpa. From Lhasa to Amdo, from India to the U.S., we see examples of how asowa rigpasensibility infuses the pragmatic and epistemological choices people make when charting a path through various forms ofsowa rigpaand biomedicine, in pursuit of healing at multiple levels. Here, an overt concern with howsowa rigpawill