1. The Central Council of Tibetan Medicine (CCTM) The Central ...

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Future Plan:
A multi-purpose plan to build a full-fledged institute on “Sowa Rigpa” The Tibetan
system of medicine in the Himalayan region has been taken up to accommodate
prime infrastructure such as the facility of dispensary, laboratory, preservation
and cultivation center, research & development unit, manufacturing unit, library,
publication etc. Strength of teachers & students will be increased, and students
will be provided the opportunity to do research in the pursuit of Ph.D. degree
including the degree of M.D. B.T.M.S. and higher degrees of Tibetan Medicine
under the Central Council of Tibetan Medicine, Dharamsala, (H.P) India. The
above-mentioned plans are under the process of submitting to the Deptt.of
AYUSH, India or Deptt.of Culture, Govt. of India.
4. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Though not much of Research & Developmental activities on Tibetan Medicine is
carried out in Exile India as compared to the work done on this by our Tibetan
colleagues in Tibet, the subject matter is interestingly very extensive in the
context of research work done on the Tibetan Medicine by foreigners as early as
later part of 18 th Century. However, we restrict our report on couple of interesting
issues, drug research & clinical research etc.
Apart from Tibet’s close neighbors like India, China, Nepal & Mongolia with
whom we share lots of common culture & fields of learning, many foreign
countries like Russia, Japan, Hungary, Israel, Germany, & England has had
taken scholarly interest in Tibetan Medicine as early as mid eighteenth century.
Some reference articles on the Fundamentals of Tibetan Medicine, Dietary
subject, drug research, Medical Thankas to the extent of translating the whole
volumes of 1 st and 2 nd Great Tantras of Gyud shi have been taken up much before
the 1959 Tibet. Drug research on some indigenous Tibetan herbs such as
Drosera peltata (Tag-ngu), Verbascum thapsus (Yugu-shing), mineral exudate
(Dag-shun), Artemesia annua (Khen-nag), Hippophae rhamnoides (Tar-bu), &
now the latest international craze on Goji-berry (De-Zerma) scientifically known
as Lycium barbarum has attracted the attention of serious global scholars to the
commercial exploiters of world at large.
The incredible 16 th century medical Thangkas depicting the whole chapters of 2 nd
Tantra of Gyud shi from Embryology to the anatomy & physiological parts have
captured the imagination of many a staunch critics of Tibetan Medicine.
In exile, the clinical research department of TMAI, Dharamsala has engaged in
many collaborative clinical research studies on the efficacy of Tibetan Medicine.
Some of the important research works are given here as follows:
a) Clinical Research