Name: Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine
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Author: B. Alan Wallace
ISBN: 9781559391481

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Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yeshi Dhonden

Illustrated by

B. Alan Wallace

Translated by

B. Alan Wallace

Publisher

Snow Lion Publications

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.3 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

1559391480

ISBN13

9781559391481

Edition No.

Synopsis "Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine"

In this remarkable contemporary presentation of the theory and practice of Tibetan medicine, Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, twenty years the personal physician of H. H. the Dalai Lama, draws from over fifty years of practicing and teaching this ancient tradition of healing. This volume vividly presents a series of lectures Dr. Dhonden gave before a group of health care professionals at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. This lecture series was presented during the planning stages of a research project at the University of California San Francisco to test Dr. Dhonden's medical treatment for metastatic breast cancer. (This research project caught the interest of NBC's Dateline, which filmed an hour-long documentary of it that aired in January 2000.) Dr. Dhonden elucidates the holistic Tibetan medical view of health and disease, referring to traditional Tibetan medical sources as well as his own experiences as a doctor practicing in Tibet India and numerous countries throughout Europe and America. His presentation is delightfully complemented by many anecdotes drawing from the ancient lore of popular folk medicine in Tibet. For health care professionals, anthropologists, historians of medicine, medical ethicists, and the general public interested in Tibetan medicine, this book is a fascinating contribution by one of the foremost practitioners of Tibetan medicine in the modern world.

B. Alan Wallace

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Brian Alan Wallace (1950) es un autor, traductor y estudioso estadounidense reconocido por su trabajo en la intersección entre la ciencia cognitiva y el budismo tibetano. Formado en física y filosofía de la ciencia, fue ordenado monje budista y estudió durante años bajo la guía del Dalái Lama y otros maestros tibetanos. Su trayectoria se ha centrado en tender puentes entre la investigación científica de la mente y las prácticas contemplativas, participando en iniciativas de diálogo entre ciencia y espiritualidad, además de fundar el Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.

Entre sus obras más influyentes se encuentra El arte de transformar la mente, donde presenta de forma accesible técnicas de meditación basadas en la tradición budista, adaptadas al contexto contemporáneo. Su enfoque combina rigor intelectual con experiencia práctica, abordando temas como la atención, la conciencia y el bienestar mental. A lo largo de su carrera ha desarrollado programas de entrenamiento contemplativo y ha contribuido activamente a la difusión del budismo en Occidente desde una perspectiva crítica y reflexiva.

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