What is Bon Medicine? Analysing Narratives of Illness and Healing
International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter
Format:
Newspaper Article
Publication Date:
2003/03//
Place of Publication:
Leiden University College
Pages:
29
Sources ID:
99461
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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Tibetan medicine is recognized today as one of the world’s mostcomplex and sophisticated systems of medicine. Over the last 1300
years, Tibetan medical traditions have produced a vast corpus of
literature analogous in complexity to the medical scholasticism of India,
China, or Greece. Tibetan medical systems are practised widely today in
the countries of Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia; in Tibetan populated
areas of the People’s Republic of China; in parts of Russia (Kalmykia,
Buryatia); and throughout India (Ladakh, Sikkim, and in Tibetan refugee
settlements). The popularity and use of Tibetan medicine is growing in
Europe, North America, and the Pacific Rim as well.