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Collected Item: “Covid-19 and Tibetan Medicine: An Awakening Tradition in a New Era of Global Health Crisis”

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Covid-19 and Tibetan Medicine: An Awakening Tradition in a New Era of Global Health Crisis

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Article

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This article visits historic and traditional eastern medicine. During the time of the pandemic, more people have been interested in traditional Tibetan medicine and the Chinese government has been investing more heavily into this form of medicine. The article also speaks of Tibetan Buddhist monks the role that meditation is playing in the research for neuroscience.

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Tibet, Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, China

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https://culanth.org/fieldsights/covid-19-and-tibetan-medicine-an-awakening-tradition-in-a-new-era-of-global-health-crisis

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Tawni Tidwell

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2020-06-23
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