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Title: Tibetan medicine in contemporary India: theory and practice
Author/Creator: Samuel, Geoffrey
Description: My theme in this chapter is the relationship between theory and practice in traditional Tibetan medicine. Here "theory" refers primarily to the Gyu Shi or "Four [Medical] Tantras," the basic Tibetan medical texts, but also to Western presentations of Tibetan medicine. which are largely based on the Gyu Shi as interpreted by contemporary Tibetan doctors. "Practice" refers mainly to observations by myself and Linda Connor during field research in Northern India with two Tibetan refugee medical clinics and their patients between June and August 1996.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keyword(s): Tibetan medicine; India; Gyu Shi
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/29533
Identifier: ISBN:0897897153

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