Tsewang Dolkar Khangkar
Tsewang Dolkar Khangkar (born 1959 in Kyirong, Tibet) is a doctor of traditional Tibetan medicine, currently exiled in India.
Early life
She was born in Kyirong, southern Tibet, and about 2 years after 1959 Tibetan uprising, she went into exile in India through Nepal with her mother, a dangerous crossing of the Himalayas during which her two elder brothers died.[1]
Studies
She studied pulse reading, urine analysis, medicinal plants and minerals used in Traditional Tibetan medicine, pharmacology and Tibetan astrology.[1]
Between 1972 and 1978, she studied Tibetan medicine at the Tibetan Medical and Astrology in Dharamshala.[1] From 1978 until 1981, she completed her studies under the guidance of her mother, the famous Dr. Lobsang Dolma Khangkar.[1]
Practice
She runs a clinic (Dolkar Herbal Medicine Clinic) in Kalkaji, south of New Delhi since 1981, and treats patients in Mumbai and Hyderabad.[1]
She has written several books on Tibetan medicine. She is considered a specialist of cancer.[2]
Family
The daughter of Lobsang Dolma Khangkar, she married in 1977 with the Tibetan intellectual K. Dhondup with whom she had three daughters, two of whom are still living.[3][4]
Publication
- (in English) Health and harmony through the balance pulse rhythms: the diagnostic art my mother taught me, with Lobsang Dolma Khangkar, Yarlung Publications, 1990
- (in English) Journey into the mystery of Tibetan medicine: based on the lectures of Dr. Dolma, Livre 1, avec Lobsang Dolma Khangkar, Yarlung Publications, 1990
- (in French) Médecin du toit du monde, with Marie-José Lamothe, Editions du Rocher, 1997, ISBN 2268024911
- (in French) La méthode bouddhiste de guérison, Guy Trédaniel, 1999, ISBN 2-84445-054-7
Bibliography
- Dolma & Dolkar: mother and daughter of Tibetan medicine, Tashi Tsering Josayma, K. Dhondup, Yarlung Publications, 1990, ISBN 8171970001
References
- ^ a b c d e Rajeshree Sisodia, Medicine Woman, 20-Feb-2005, boloji.com
- ^ Tibetan medicine cures cancer, The Times of India, 12 juin 2009
- ^ Bertrand Odelys, Dharamsala, Chroniques tibétaines, Albin Michel, 2003, ISBN 2226142592
- ^ K. Dhondup (1952–1995), Jamyang Norbu, 15 mai 1995
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