Dear Madam (Mona Schrempf),
Guten Tag !!Thanks for yr.announcement of the conference on Tibetian
Medicine.As a clinician, academician & a researcher of Ayurvedic
medicine in particular & of Asian Traditional medicine in general, I
would like you to ask a qustion.Madam have you kept a topic on
simillarities in Ayurvedic Medicine & Tibetian Medicine ?? OR on
common points in both these systems,since I know that there are such
points & if explored will be of great interest to others as well !!
What will be a official language of the conference ?? Deutsch or
English ??
Please reply me back.
Danke schon !!
With warm regards,
Prof.Dr.Aashish Phadke, India
Director,Ayurinstitute,Institute of Ayurveda & Panchakarma Therapy.
President, Ayurvision Medical Research Foundation, India
www.ayurvision.com

--- In iastam@yahoogroups.com, "Mona Schrempf" <arura_1@h...> wrote:
> Dear IASTAM members,
>
> I would like to announce an upcoming conference panel focusing
on "New
> Research on Tibetan Medicine" which also has been fortunate to
receive
> funding by The Wellcome Trust. There will be 26 participants giving
papers
> on Tibetan medicine from a variety of disciplines ranging from
> anthropological to historical and literary studies. The panel takes
place as
> part of the 10th Seminar of the International Association for
Tibetan
> Studies hosted this year by the Aris Trust Centre
> (http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/iats). It extends over four days in
the
> mornings (9.00 - 12.45 am) from Tuesday 9th to Friday 12th
September 2003.
> The venue is St. Hugh's College, Oxford.
>
> The panel New Research on Tibetan Medicine is the first panel on
Tibetan
> medicine held at an IATS conference, and reflects the increasing
scholarly
> interest for this subject in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. The aim
of the
> panel is to open up our common interests in this field for mutual
inquiry
> and discussion. By "Tibetan medicine" I suggest we include all
aspects of
> Tibetan professional and popular systems of medical knowledge and
practice,
> as well as their representations, and their encompassing social,
cultural,
> political and economic milieux. Hopefully this panel will generate
> discussion of some fundamental questions and problems about our
research,
> both theoretical and methodological: the various medical
epistemologies
> involved ("traditional" and biomedical, professional and folk or
popular,
> gender and age related etc.), changing Tibetan concepts of health
and
> illness throughout history and diverse national contexts, as well
as
> transnational aspects of Tibetan medicine.
>
> For your further information, please see enclosed attachments for
schedule
> and abstracts.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Mona Schrempf
> (panel organizer)
>
>
> Dr. Mona Schrempf
> c/o Zentralasien-Seminar
> Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
> Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
> Unter den Linden 6
> 10099 Berlin
> e-mail: arura_1@h...
>
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