Nomad RSI - Therapeutic diversity and the environment

Leh, India, 25-27 October 2004 - Health and Social Harmony in Ladakh - National Seminar

Co-organised by Nomad RSI and Ladakh Society for Traditional Medicines, with the support of Niwano Peace Foundation, Japan

Presentation

In the context of Ladakh, characterized by strong inter-religious tensions, this seminar has been a unique opportunity to collectively think on the role the healers may have in maintaining social equilibrium. This event gathered together health actors, mostly from Tibetan medicine but also from biomedicine and Ayurveda, as well as religious leaders from the Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu faiths, for a weeklong seminar on the relationships between health and society. Participants presented their views of the potential that healers can play in improving the social, as well the physical, conditions of the society which they all share.

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Participants and lectures

Plenary Sessions :

• Medical Pluralism in India: Cooperation between medical systems and their role in social harmony
  Darshan Shankar (Fondation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore)
• Health and social harmony: Reflections on some key themes
  Calum Blaikie (Nomad Research Unit)
  
• Sowa-Rigpa System of Medicine and its Service to mankind in the present world
  Gyurmet Namgyal (Ex. Research Officer, Sowa Rigpa Research Center)
• Biomedical system and its service to the mankind in the present world
  Sonam Dawa Lonpo (Chief Medical Officer, Leh)
• Ayurveda System of Medicine and its service to the mankind in the present world
  Darshan Shankar (Fondation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore)
• The relationship between the different systems of medicine in Ladakh. A personal experience from biomedicine
  Tsering Lhadol (Head Gynecologist, SNM Hospital)
• The relationship between the different systems of medicine in Ladakh. A personal experience from amchi medicine
  Tsering Phuntsog (Chief Amchi, Health Department)
• The relationship between the different systems of medicine in Ladakh. A personal experience from amchi medicine
  Padma Gyurmet (Research Officer, Sowa Rigpa Research Center)
• The importance of cooperation among different systems of Medicine in Ladakhi context. A personal experience from a non-practitioner
  Abdul Gani Sheikh
• Impact of Amchi medicine on public health in the past and its present status
  Gelong Paldon

Participants to the interactive workshop

• Biomedical physicians: Smanla Phuntsog (Head Mahabodi Hospital), Tsering Norbu and Ghulam Mohd (Physicians, SNM Hospital), Tsering Norbu (Surgeon, SNM Hospital), Tsering Lhadol (Head Gynecologist, SNM Hospital), Angchok Katpa and Norbu Tsering Tsaskhan (physicians).
• Physicians of Tibetan medicine: Gyurmet Namgyal (Ex. Research Officer, Sowa Rigpa Research Center), Padma Gyurmet (Research Officer, Sowa Rigpa Research Center), Thinles Yangjor (professor, CIBS), Tsering Paljor (Ex-president, Ladakh Amchi Sabah) and Rigzin Wangtak (president,Ladakh Amchi Sabah), Stanzin Dorje (Tibetan medical and Astro institute).
• Scholars and physicians from other systems: Aba Tashi Rabgais, Abdul Gani Sheikh, Gelong Konchok Phandey, Gelong Paldan, Darshan Shankar, Calum Blaikie.

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