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acupuncture
adoptions
amchi (medical practitioners): center vs. margins and; continuity of Tibetan medical practices and; defined; knowledge of; lay, called to monasteries; “looking at illness”; “real amchi” (amchi ngönné) vs. government amchi; recollections of; seeing patients; training of; wealth needed by. See also Cultural Revolution; Medical Houses; medicine production, recipes, and compounding; revival of Tibetan medicine
Ani Ngawang
Ani Payang
Ani Pema Lhamo
anthropology and historicities
architecture and authority of Medical Houses
barefoot doctors campaign
Barefoot Doctor’s Manual, The (“Rkang rjen sman pa’i” slob deb; C. Chijiao yisheng shouce)
Barefoot Doctor’s New Tibetan Medical Compounding Manual (Tibetan Medical Manual; Sman pa rkang rjen ma’i bod sman sbyor sde gsar bsgrigs) (Lhasa City Mentsikhang)
Barnett, Robert
Beall, Cynthia
Beijing Tibetan and Ethnic Medicine Hospital
béken (phlegm)
biomedicine: barefoot doctor campaign and; combined with Chinese medicine, in Cultural Revolution; injections; NCMS scheme and; Ngamring People’s Hospital and; Pelshung graduates and; Shigatse PLA hospital and
Blaikie, Calum
bone lineage (dunggyü): exceptions to; flesh lineage vs.; gendered descent ideology and; Mentrong and; ritual obligations; Ruthog village amchi and; Térap House and; as type of medical lineage. See also adoptions
Bonpo medical practitioners
British political mission
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist sciences
bumrampa degree
Bumshi
Cai Jingfeng
Cassinelli, Charles W.
cauterization (mégyab)
centers and margins of Tibetan Medicine
Chakpori Medical College
cham dances
Chaug Gonpa (monastery)
Chen Kuiyan
Chensel Labdra school
childbirth
children and pediatrics: child health care campaign (Lhasa Mentsikhang); ear vein diagnosis and; Mentsikhang Department for Women and Children’s Health; Treasure of the Heart (Jampa Tupwang); vaccination campaigns
Childs, Geoff
China’s Tibetan Medicine (Zhen and Cai)
Chinese Communist Party (CCP): censorship by; central Tibet reforms and; Eleventh Party Congress (1978); Ninth Party Congress (1969); official accounts of reforms; Panchen Lama and; “speaking bitterness” (suku); TCM and. See also Cultural Revolution
Chinese Herbal Medicines Common in Tibet (Sino-Tibetan Herbal; Bod ljong rgyun spyo krung dbyi’i sman rigs; C. Xizang changyong zhong caoyao)
Chinese medicine: controversies over; Mao and; new allowances for, in 1970s; in PRC constitution; reduction of services in governmental services; “Traditional Chinese Medicine” (TCM); trungyi as term for
“Chinese State interests”
Chiu Tekcholing nunnery
chödzé households
chökhang (Buddhist chapel or altar room)
chuser (“yellow water”)
collection of herbs and ingredients: Cultural revolution and; Nyékhang and; Ruthog village amchi and; Sino-Tibetan Herbal and; time required for; Wangnam on local collection. See also medicine production, recipes, and compounding
communes, model
Communist Gyüshi
compounding. See medicine production, recipes, and compounding
Cooperative Medical Services (CMS) scheme
Craig, Sienna R.
cultural preservation argument
Cultural Revolution: barefoot doctors campaign; as “big mistake”; CCP’s loose censorship on; “destroying the old”; destruction and preservation of medical texts; destruction of Mentrong and monasteries; the Four Olds; Janes on; partial government support for Tibetan medical work; Red Guards attack on Mentsikhang; revival of Tibetan medicine and; SEM as precursor to; Sino-Tibetan Herbal and; survival or transformation of medical system during; Tibetan culture and; Tibetan Medical Manual and; timeline; virtual disappearance of Tibetan medicine
Dalai Lamas: Fifth; Thirteenth; Fourteenth; exile, avoiding discussion of; tensions with Panchen Lamas, recurrent
Das, Veena
Declaration of Alma-Ata (1978)
Democratic Reforms: delayed in Tibet; land reforms; in Ruthog village; timeline of key events See also reform narratives
Deng Xiaoping
Desi Sangyé Gyatso. See Sangyé Gyatso
“destroying the old”
Dewachen Nunnery
diagnostics: disease categories; ear vein diagnosis; of monks compared to lay amchi; pulses; remote; in Sino-Tibetan Herbal; stone diagnosis; ta rek dri (three classic diagnostic methods)
Diemberger, Hildegard
disease categories
Do Dasel Wangmo
dön (spirits)
donations and offerings for treatment. See payment and donations for treatment
Dowman, Keith
Drangsong Düpai Ling (medical school)
Drepung Monastery
drib (pollution)
dribgyön illness
drumbu (rheumatism or arthritis)
dunggyü. See bone lineage
ear vein diagnosis
economic liberalization
economics. See moral economy; payment and donations for treatment
education. See medical lineages; schools, medical; transmission of medical knowledge
Ekvall, Robert B.
elements, five
Essence of Medical Compounding (Sman sbyor nus pa phyogs bsdus phan bde legs bshad) (Khyenrap Norbu)
ethics, medical
exiled Tibetans: autobiographies of physicians of 14th Dalai Lama; Dalai Lama; historicity and; Ninth Panchen Lama (1923–24); on occupation of Tibet and effect on Tibetan medicine; Sino-Tibetan Herbal and; Tibet in Exile government
Fang, Xiaoping
Farmer, Paul
First of August military medical training
First Study of Tibetan Medicine and Medical Materials
Fjeld, Heidi E.
flesh lineage (shagyü)
for-profit health care
Foucault, Michel
Four Clean-ups, the (Socialist Education Movement, SEM)
Four Olds, the
Four Treatises (Gyüshi) (Yuthog Yonten Gonpo); about; Bumshi as precursor to; on China’s annexation of Tibet; Communist Gyüshi (1976); Cultural Revolution and; divisions of; groups of illnesses in; lineage in; Medicine Buddha as teacher of; memorization of; in private libraries; on status of medicines; Tibetan Medical Manual compared to; Vocational Health School textbook and
freedom of religion
Gawo Dorjé (doctor and pharmacist)
Gelugpa school of Buddhism: Chakpori Medical College; exclusion of women at medical institutes; Ngamring Chöde Monastery; nuns and. See also Dalai Lamas; Panchen Lamas; Tashilhunpo Monastery
gender: Communist reformers and gender equality; descent ideology and; expectations, gendered; Medical Houses inherited by women; political economy of Tibetan medicine, intersection with; reform narratives and. See also women
Germano, David
gerpa households
Goldstein, Melvyn C.
Gongmen Konchog Pandar
good manufacturing practices (GMP) standards
Great Leap Forward
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. See Cultural Revolution
Gurgyam Monastery
Gutschow, Kim
Gyatso
Gyenlok faction
Gyüshi. See Four Treatises
Henrion-Dourcy, Isabelle
herbs. See collection of herbs and ingredients; medicine production, recipes, and compounding
Hilliard, Casey
Hirsch, Eric
historiography and historicities. See also reform narratives
house concept, anthropological
Household Responsibility System (gentshang lamlug)
Hsi Changhao
Hsu, Elisabeth
Hu Yaobang
“humors”
Hundred Verses Written from Experience (Nyams yig brgya rtsa) (Gongmen Konchog Pandar)
Indian Medical Services (IMS) doctors
inequities, health
injections
international NGOs. See also Swiss Red Cross (SRC)
“invention of tradition”
Jamgon Kongtrul Yonten Gyatso. See Kongtrul Yonten Gyatso
Jampa Trinlé (Lhasa Mentsikhang director)
Jampa Trinlé (Shigatse)
Jampa Tupwang
Jamyang Norbu
Janes, Craig
Janglug (Jang School)
Jangpa Namgyel Drazang
Jedrung Dzi (Rje drung ’Dzi)
jedrung households
Jiang Village, Zhejiang
Jiao, Ben
Jokhang
Ju Mipham
June 26 Directive
Kailash Projects School
Kao Yuanmei
Khandro Yangga
Khandro Yanggar
khyimgyü (lineage of the household)
khyung-nga (Garuda 5)
Khyungtrul Jigmé Namkhai Dorjé
Khyungtrul Menpé (Khyung sprul sman dpe) (Khyungtrul Jigmé Namkhai Dorjé)
Kikinaka Medical School, Tashilhunpo Monastery
kinship ideology. See also bone lineage (dunggyü)
Kongtrul Yonten Gyatso
Kosseleck, Reinhart
kundagi dönné diseases
Kunga Phuntsog
Kyemen Rinpoche
lanang tralkyiné diseases
land reforms
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lhasa Health Bureau Revolutionary Health Committee
Lhasa Medical College
Lhasa Middle School
Lhasa Uprising
Lhünding Mentrong: architecture and authority of; destruction of; Jangpa Namgyel Drazang statue; as Medical House example; medicine room of; reform narrative; revival of; social status of
Lhünding Monastery, destruction of
Lhundrup, Tanzen
liberal model of healthcare
libraries, medical. See texts, medical
Lin Biao
lineages. See bone lineage (dunggyü); flesh lineage (shagyü); medical lineages (mengyü); teaching lineage (lobgyü)
Liu Shaoqi
Lobsang
Lobsang Dolma Khankhar
Lobsang Duden
Lobsang Wangyal
Lodrö
lung (oral transmission of medical texts). See also transmission of medical knowledge
lung (wind)
magpas (called-in son-in-laws)
Makley, Charlene
mangtso (the people)
mani rilbu (sacred pills)
Manjushri
Mao Zedong: barefoot doctor campaign and; Chinese medicine and; Cultural Revolution and; death of; Great Leap Forward and; June 26 Directive; Quotations; Tibetan medicine and; Tibetan reforms and; “treasure-house” slogan
Maraini, Fosco
margins and centers of Tibetan Medicine
McGranahan, Carol
Medical Houses (sman grong): amchi medical work at; anthropological house concept and; architecture and authority of; gendered ideologies of descent and transmission of medical knowledge; Lhünding Mentrong example; medical lineages and; as “moral persons”; Nyékhang; reform narratives; relations between; social status, material wealth, and medical libraries of; Térap House example; terminology. See also Lhünding Mentrong; Térap House, Gye
medical lineages (mengyü): history of; home lineage vs.; Medical Houses and; types of; women as heirs. See also adoptions
medical poverty trap
Medicine Buddha: authority of; Communist Gyüshi and; Four Treatises and; offerings and prayers to; statue of; temple dedicated to; thanka of
medicine production, recipes, and compounding: in Ani Pemo Lhamo’s collection; commercialization and scaling up of; finances required for; good manufacturing practices (GMP) standards and; in Khyenrap Norbu’s works; khyung-nga (Garuda 5); local vs. foreign materials; medicine preparation houses; menjordeb (handwritten compounding recipe book); menjordeb texts; in Mirror of the Moon; poetic names; process of; Ruthog village amchi and; Semde 5 (Peace of Mind 5); in Sino-Tibetan Herbal; TAR Tibetan Pharmaceutical Factory; at Tashilhunpo Medical Clinic; in Tibetan Medical Manual
medico-cultural revolution. See Cultural Revolution
memory: amchi memory practices; Marxist vs. every-day epistemes; “meaning in”; “oppositional practices of time”; recollections of amchi. See also reform narratives
menjordeb (handwritten compounding recipe book)
menkhang (medicine room): Buddhist scriptures kept in; at Lhünding Mentrong and Térap House; medicine preparation in; ritual purity and
menngak (secret knowledge)
menpa (physician). See also amchi
Mentrong. See Lhünding Mentrong
Men-Tsee-Khang (exile institution)
Mentsikhang (Institute of Medicine and Astrology, Lhasa): center vs. margins and; child health care campaign; Department for Women and Children’s Health; founding and mission of; Janes’s twentieth-century history of transformations in; Kikinaka compared to; as Lhasa City Mentsikhang; library, attempt to restock; medicine empowerment ritual, annual; Red Guards attack on; reinstatement of; socialist outlook and; three branches of
mercury processing
Millard, Colin
Ministry of Health
Mirror of the Moon (Methods of Giving Birth Helpful for All; Byis pa btsa’ thabs kun phan zla ba’i me long) (Khyenrap Norbu)
miser (commoners)
modernization in Ganden Phodrang state
monasteries: Bonpo medical practitioners; destruction of, in Cultural Revolution; donations to; in Ngamring Dzong; Nyingma practitioners as doctors; presence or absence of doctors in; rebuilding of; revival of monastic medical practice. See also specific monasteries by name
monks as medical practitioners. See religion, politics, and public health of Tibetan State
Moon Jewel of the Body’s Measurements (Lus thig zla ba nor bu’i me long) (Zurkar Nyamnyi Dorjé)
moral economy: amchi practice, medical rounds, and; good manufacturing practices (GMP) standards and; “looking at illness” and; political economy and NCMS; primary care, precarious place of Tibetan medicine in; Saxer’s “moral economy of Tibetanness”; structural violence and; Tashilhunpo medicine production and
moxibustion
Mueggler, Eric
Nakane, Chie
“nationality medicine”
neoliberal model of healthcare
New Cooperative Medical Services (NCMS) scheme
New “Manba,” The (Zhu Naizheng)
Ngamring Chöde Monastery
Ngamring Tibetan Medicine Hospital
Ngapö Ngawang Jigmé
Ngawang Chödrag
Ngawang Dorjé
Ngawang Thuthob Wangchuk (the Sakya Tri’chen)
ngazab or ngadag (“owner of many”)
nuns, Buddhist: about; case studies; destruction of nunneries; Dewachen Nunnery; as doctors in early twentieth century; as path to education before 1960s; revival of medical practice
Nyamdre faction (Cultural Revolution)
nyamyik (“writings from experience”)
Nyékhang House
nyépa sum (three forces)
NYIMA Foundation
Nyingma Chaug monastery
Nyingma school of Buddhism, monks as practitioners in
“old diseases”
open-door policies
“oppositional practices of time”
Panchen Lamas: Tenth; CCP and; government of; reforms and; tensions with Dalai Lamas, recurrent
Pangyul Monastery
patent medicines, Chinese
patrilineal descent. See also bone lineage (dunggyü)
payment and donations for treatment: moral economy and; NCMS and; norms and practices. See also moral economy
pediatrics. See children and pediatrics
Pelshung Tibetan Medicine School
Pema Kelsang
People’s Hospital, Lhasa
People’s Hospital, Ngamring
People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) hospital, Shigatse
People’s Republic of China (PRC). See Chinese Communist Party; Cultural Revolution; Mao Zedong
pharmaceuticals. See medicine production, recipes, and compounding
philosophy, Buddhist
Phuntsoling Monastery
“pillar industries”
polha (patrilateral kingroup deity)
political economy
“politics of fear”
polyandry
Poole, Deborah
Potala Palace, Lhasa
poverty trap, medical
Preparatory Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region of Tibet (PCART)
privatization
protests (March 2008) and crackdown
pujas
pulses, reading
Quotations of Chairman Mao (“Little Red Book”)
Rabgyal
recipes. See medicine production, recipes, and compounding
Red Guards
red reproductive substance (khuwa or trak)
reform narratives: gender and; Mentrong; modern biographies of exiled doctors; ngakpa Nyingkhang; official accounts; oppositional practices of time; silences; “speaking bitterness” (C. suku); state surveillance and shifting narration for audience; Térap House and state-time; timeline of key events. See also Democratic Reforms
Regional Party Committee, Tibet
religion, politics, and public health of Tibetan State: authority of Medicine Buddha; Bonpo medical practitioners; British approach; Buddhist nuns as doctors; child health care campaign and vaccinations; freedom of religion; modernization under Ganden Phodrang government; Nyingma practitioners as doctors; prevalence of monk-doctors; Tashilhunpo, Kikinaka Medical School, and expanding Buddhist medical authority in Tsang; ten Buddhist sciences. See also monasteries; nuns, Buddhist; ritual practices
revival of Tibetan medicine: biomedicine and; Bon monk amchi and; Buddhist monastic practitioners and; Communist Gyüshi and; Cultural Revolution and; defined; governmental vs. private; Mentrong House; New Cooperative Medical Services (NCMS) scheme and; Nyékhang House; religious freedom and; rural primary care and national policy on the margins; Ruthog village amchi and; SRC and the Pelshung Tibetan Medicine School; state-sponsored revitalization; Térap House
Richardson, Hugh
rinchen rilbu (precious pills)
Rinchen Wangyal
ritual practices: annual medicine empowerment ritual, Lhasa Mentsikhang; cham dances; Medical Houses and; torma offerings. See also religion, politics, and public health of Tibetan State
ritual purity
rounds, medical
Ruthog village
Samuel, Geoffrey
sangbo druk or sang druk (six supreme medicines)
Sangyé Gyatso
Saxer, Martin
Scheid, Volker
schools, medical: Chakpori Medical College; Chensel Labdra; Drangsong Düpai Ling medical school; Kailash Projects School; Kikinaka Medical School, Tashilhunpo Monastery; NYIMA School in Lundrub; Pelshung Tibetan Medicine School; Tibetan Medical College; Vocational Health School, Lhasa City; Vocational Health School, Shigatse
Scott, James
Semde 5 (Peace of Mind 5)
serfs, “liberated”
shabdrung households
shenwang ngöngyiné diseases
Shigatse Health Bureau
Shigatse Mentsikhang Hospital
Shigatse Prefecture. See Tsang region
Short History of Ngamring Dzong Tibetan Medical Hospital (Wangnam)
Sino-Tibetan Herbal (Chinese Herbal Medicines Common in Tibet)
six supreme medicines (sangbo druk or sang druk)
smallpox
Snellgrove, Davidson
Socialist Education Movement (SEM; or the Four Clean-ups)
Soktsang, Lobsang Dhonden
Sonam Drölma
Sorig Zintig (Gso rig zin tig) (Kongtrul Yonten Gyatso)
Sowa Rigpa. See Tibetan Medicine
“speaking bitterness” (C. suku)
spiritual merit
state, religion, and politics. See religion, politics, and public health of Tibetan State
state surveillance and reform narratives
Steward, Charles
Stoddard, Heather
stone diagnosis
structural violence
“struggle sessions” (thamzing)
subaltern studies
surveillance by the state, reform narratives and
Swiss Red Cross (SRC)
ta rek dri (three diagnostic methods)
Tambiah, Stanley
TAR Tibetan Pharmaceutical Factory
Tashi
Tashi Tsering
Tashilhunpo Monastery
taxes and household status
Tayhkang Jampa Tupwang. See Jampa Tupwang
Taykhang Jetsunma Jampel Chodron
Taylor, Kim
teaching lineage (lobgyü)
Tenzin Chödrak
Térap House, Gye; architecture of; Cultural Revolution and; as example of Medical House; medicine room of; reform narrative; renovation, discussion of; restoration of; social status of; as taxpayer household; visit to
texts, medical: Bonpo; destruction of; in monasteries; private libraries. See also specific texts, such as Four Treatises
Third Forum on Work in Tibet (1994)
Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR): Chinese occupation; economic liberalization in; economy of; formation of; maps; occupation by PRC; “pillar industries”. See also specific topics, programs, and institutions
Tibet Development Fund (TDF)
Tibet in Exile government
Tibet University
Tibetan language, revolutionary reforms to
Tibetan Medical College, Lhasa
Tibetan Medical Manual (Barefoot Doctor’s New Tibetan Medical Compounding Manual)
Tibetan Medical Thanka 37
Tibetan Medicine (Sowa Rigpa): Cultural Revolution and survival or transformation of; delegitimation and relegitimation of; margins and centers of; philosophical foundation of; “traditional Tibetan Medicine” (TTM); treatments in. See also amchi; medicine production, recipes, and compounding; religion, politics, and public health of Tibetan State; revival of Tibetan medicine
time, “oppositional practices of”
torma offerings
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). See Chinese medicine
“traditional Tibetan Medicine” (TTM)
transmission of medical knowledge: collaboration and knowledge exchange; gendered descent ideology and; vertical vs. horizontal. See also bone lineage; medical lineages
Treasure of the Heart (On Childcare: Treasure of the Heart Benefitting Beings; Byis pa nyer spyod ’gro phan nying nor) (Jampa Tupwang)
“treasure-house,” Chinese medicine as
trelpa households
tri (oral didactic instruction)
tripa (bile)
Troru Tsenam
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
trustworthiness of doctors
tsadrum disease
Tsang region (Shigatse Prefecture): about; maps; pre-PRC administration of; as regional center; as understudied. See also specific topics, such as Medical Houses
Tsarong Palden Gyaltsen
tsatsas (clay icons)
tsering rilbu (long-life pills)
tsotel (purified, medically-used mercury)
Tutob Gyeltsen
union clinics
United Front
united front policy
Ü-Tsang (central Tibet)
vaccination campaigns
Van Vleet, Stacey
Vocational Health School, Lhasa City
Vocational Health School, Shigatse
Vocational Health School textbook
wang (empowerments)
Wangdu
Wangnam
Western Medical Practitioners Study Chinese Medicine campaign
Western medicine. See biomedicine
white reproductive substance (khuwa)
Woeser, Tsering
women: excluded from Gelugpa medical institutes; as heirs to medical knowledge and texts; mercury processing by; as “not scholarly”; Shigatse Vocational Health School and; as sources of knowledge. See also gender; nuns, Buddhist
World Health Organization (WHO)
“Wrath of the Serfs” exhibition
Yeh, Emily
Yeshe Lhamo
yongdrub tseginé diseases
Yonten Tsering; on Ani Pema Lhamo; compounding medicines; Cultural Revolution and; disease categories; dispersal of Térap and; on etiology of Four Treatises; on father’s death; fees and funding; on joining of politics and religion; Kikinaka Medical School and; on medical rounds; memories of; moral economy and; People’s Hospital Tibetan medical clinic and; preservation of medical texts; on reforms; role of, in fieldwork; state surveillance and; Térap House and; training; treatment and “looking at illness”
Yuthog Nyingthig (Yuthog Heart Essence)
Yuthog Yonten Gonpo
Zhang Guohua
Zhen Yan
Zhishé 11 compound
Zhou Enlai
Zhu Naizheng