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The personal physician to the Dalai Lama gives a series of three talks covering the underlying causes of illness, diagnosis and treatment in traditional Buddhist medicine. Although based on the Indian Ayurvedic system, Tibetan medicine includes treatments such as acupuncture and moxabustion which originated in China and elsewhere in Asia.
Dr. Choedrak, personal physician to the Dalai Lama and chief doctor and director of the Phamaceutical Dept, of Men-Tsee-Khang, lectures through an interpreter on the prctice of medicine in Tibet and its historical, religious and political context.
A documentary video on the wonders of Tibetan medicine.