Tibetan Medicine: A Buddhist Approach to Healing

Abstract

"Tibetan Medicine was filmed at the Tibetan Medical Center established in exile by the Dalai Lama in the Indian Himalayas-- the only remaining center for Tibetan Medicine. Ama Lopsang Dolma, Tibet's first woman doctor, shows how medicines are made form animals, vegetable and mineral substances and how acupuncture and moxibustion are used during her daily rounds as a practicing physician. The video explores the relationship of physical health to magnetic and other forces in the enivronment, showing how Tibetan Medicine hals both the physical and the psychic being by treating the patient rather than the disease." [Description from the cassette]