The New Yuthok Institute for Tibetan Medicine Since 1999 the New Yuthok Institute for Tibetan Medicine is a leading European center for the learning of Tibetan Medicine, (also called Sowa Rigpa), educating and training hundreds of students from many countries, in traditional Tibetan medicine theory and practice. Besides its main four-year course on Tibetan medicine, the Institute also organizes seminars and conferences on Tibetan astrology, Buddhist...
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The 4-year Tibetan medicine course Since 1977, The New Yuthok Institute has trained many students through a 4-year Tibetan Medicine course The course is given in English (international classes) on seven weekends per year, or in English with an italian translation (Italian class), on 8 weekends a year. You can find its detailed curriculum here below....
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In Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism, the oral transmission (lung) is regarded as the soul of the tradition. It is a sound or voice energy continuity that bears the power and energy of the masters lineage. Therefore it connects a student to a precious root teaching that has been transmitted across the centuries through unbroken masters lineages. It is through the voice of a master holding the tradition, and who reads or recites the teaching, that the hearer receives blessing and...
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Discovering the Tibetan herbal tradition The Combination of Eastern and Western Herbal Study The ancient art of herbal therapy has been greatly developed and used by the people of Tibet for thousands of years. Tibetan physicians used hundreds of herbs in their practice to provide basic health care in the Himalayan kingdoms in accordance to the Gyud-shi (Four medical tantras). It still is a living tradition and its benefits are recognized throughout the world. In fact, Tibet...
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Tibetan moxibustion practice is a fire healing therapy, which developed thousands of years ago. This method of healing is very appreciated in Tibet. It is effective and its material, the different types of Artemisia species that widely grow in Tibet used as moxa wool, is not expensive in high altitude land (now available in Chinese medicine and acupuncture shops). The technique principle is to warm or give heat on the natural body sang (gsang) points shown by the disease....
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