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Dictionary of Tibetan Materia Medica is a facsimile of what might have been the ¿rst Tibetan work of its kind. Originally handwritten in clear uchen script in the Indian Himalaya and published in 1991, this alphabetical dictionary documents an estimated three thousand unique ingredient names collected from the principal classical texts on medicine and pharmacognosy. Cross-referencing relatively unknown synonyms, Sanskrit-derived and other foreign terms as well as poetic and secret names to their respective main entries, it is an indispensable guide for the correct identi¿cation of the herbs, minerals, animal substances, and metals listed in traditional Tibetan medical formulas. Key quotations on their healing properties, subdivisions, and similar materia medica further increase the value of this pioneering lexical reference for practitioner-pharmacists and researchers of Sowa Rigpa's vast pharmacopoeia.
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Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya (Menrampa) is an internationally renowned senior practitioner, scholar, and teacher of Sowa Rigpa. He trained at Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala, where he graduated ¿rst of his class in 1977 and served as assistant pharmacist, professor, and college principal until 1989. After lecturing at the Central Institute for Buddhist Studies (Ladakh, 1989-1991), he moved to Europe, where he acted as guest professor in Tibetan medicine for DÄGfA (the German Medical Association for Acupuncture) for more than two decades. He co-founded and directs the New Yuthok Institute (Italy) as well as TME - Tibetan Medicine Education Center (Switzerland), through which he has instructed hundreds of students on clinical, yogic, and tantric knowledge and practices that balance the body-mind.
