Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan
culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social …

This article emerges from a workshop titled “Producing Efficacious Medicine: Quality,
Potency, Lineage, and Critically Endangered Knowledge,” held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in …

Challenges of Globalisation conference in Bhutan, September 2009 (organised by IASTAM,
the International Association for Traditional Medicine in collaboration with the Institute for …

This introduction to the special issue of EASTS begins with a survey of recent social
scientific work on medicine and healing in Tibetan and Himalayan societies. The author …

Representing the first comprehensive study of Tibetan medical institutions, this dissertation
argues that medicine played a crucial role in the development of Tibetan Buddhism outside …

This article analyzes the history and development of Tibetan medicine in exile from the
perspective of the pervasive Tibetan exile narrative of preservation and loss. Through …

The past decade has witnessed a blossoming of scholarship across the humanities and
social sciences that takes as its area of inquiry the Tibetan science of healing, or Sowa …

Between 1916 and 1924, a Tibetan public healthcare programme that focused on childcare
and natal astrology comprised a central aspect of the mission of the Lhasa Mentsikhang …

Over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees languished in camps established in eastern Nepal by the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) through fifteen years of failed bi …

Background Like many things about contemporary Tibet and the wider Himalayan region,
the history and identity of Tibetan healing practices are contested. There is nevertheless a …