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Tibetan Medicine
Nowadays, Tibetan medicine is getting more and more attention from both scholars and media. Tibetan culture, significant and complex issues are some aspects that determine whether Tibetan medicine can still continue to survive as a living tradition. Since Tibetan medicine is becoming more accessible in the America, it is vital to realize about the significant difference between Tibetan medicine and the richness of information and knowledge which the Tibetan people have been promoted to the West. Even though religion, culture, and politics can be freely disseminated here, the conditions that which medicine is allowed to be practiced in this nation are still limited by the culture, science, economics and regulations anyway
History:
Through the knowledge from various medical systems, an approach to medical science drawn from thousand years of accumulated experiential knowledge and intuition about the nature of health and illness has been created by the Tibetans. Before Buddhism entered Tibet centuries ago, similar to all ancient people, Tibetans had a significant level of medical knowledge too. According to historical sources, many new ideas regarding medicine began to enter the country in early 4th century. In the beginning, influences came from India in the form Ayurvedic medicine, and some spiritual and psychologically based systems from Buddhist and other resources. Around the 7th-8th centuries the Tibetan government started to sponsor some conferences where doctors who expert in medical systems of China, Persia, India and Greece to present and debate their ideas concerning health and medical treatment. Besides that, specialists with supreme knowledge in the diagnosis, treatment and understanding of illness were invited to contribute for the medical field of the nation. Later in 11th century, this knowledge had been codified into a unique system which contains a synthesis of physical principals as well as psychological medicine imbued with a Buddhist spiritual understanding. This understanding had formed the foundation for Tibetan medicine and also for the benefited patients as well as medical staffs alike. It explained how health and illness can be affected by both relationship between the mind and the body as well as the connectedness of people to the natural world and sense of spirituality.