Presents a collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine. This work provides fresh insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have been manifest in a range of traditional and contemporary…
Legend has it that hidden in the remote reaches of the Himalayan mountains lies an ancient secret. There, generations of Tibetan monks have passed down a series of exercises with mystical, age-reversing properties. Known as the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation, or the Five Rites, t…
Introduction: The Indian face of Sowa Rigpa / Stephan Kloos and Laurent Pordié -- The amchi as villager : status and its refusal in Ladakh / Fernanda Pirie -- Good medicines, bad hearts : the social role of the amchi in a Buddhist Dard community /Stephan Kloos -- Where there is …
"The contributors to Healing at the Periphery examine Sowa Rigpa, or Tibetan medicine, and the central part practitioners of Tibetan healing known as amchis play in Indian Himalayan communities and the exile Tibetan community."--