| Tibetan medicine is a centuries-old hallowed | | | | materialism.Tibetan medicine is an art, |
| traditional medical system. This is a fairly | | | | science and philosophy that encompasses a |
| complex approach to diagnosis and utilizes | | | | holistic approach to health care. It is an |
| behavior and dietary modification, natural | | | | art because its diagnostic methods are based |
| medicines and physical therapies to treat | | | | on creativity, subtlety, insight and |
| illnesses. Since Tibet is a border country, | | | | compassion of the medical practitioner. It is |
| Tibetan medicine is a synthesis of the Indian | | | | a science because it has a systematic and |
| (Ayurveda), Persian (Unani), Chinese, Greek | | | | logical framework that is based on the study |
| and Tibetan medical systems. Tibetan medicine | | | | of the body and its relationship with the |
| is practiced in a wide belt of the world | | | | environment. It is a philosophy because it |
| including countries like India, Nepal, | | | | embraces the Buddhist principles of altruism, |
| Bhutan, Ladakh, Siberia, China and Mongolia, | | | | ethics and karma.According to the underlying |
| in addition to Tibet. More recently, Tibetan | | | | Buddhist philosophy that shapes Tibetan |
| medicine has also started seeping into the | | | | medicine, all suffering has a reason. |
| West, invading parts of Europe and | | | | According to the Buddha, impermanence is the |
| America.Since Tibet is the land of | | | | only permanent feature of life. Everything in |
| monasteries, monks and meditation, it is | | | | this world is in a state of flux. This is a |
| inevitable that Tibetan medicine is a fusion | | | | reality and a necessity of life. This state |
| of the scientific with the religious. It | | | | of constant change brings with it suffering |
| embraces the traditional Buddhist belief that | | | | and it is this suffering that is inflicted on |
| illness of the body is caused by the poisons | | | | man from time to time. Thus suffering is not |
| in the mind, namely ignorance, aggression and | | | | accidental. |