For Rural Tibetans, the Future Is in Town – washingtonpost.com
Tibetans, traditionally nomadic herders and farmers, are increasingly being lured into a commercial world, a place where Chinese and English language skills are prerequisites for success and ethnic identity is something to be marketed to tourists. Many young Tibetans like Jian jump at the chance to escape harsh farm work on mountain plateaus, but the opportunity means leaving behind a way of life that has defined one of the most romanticized cultures in the world.
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How the Dalai Lama can help you live to 120…
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“The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.” — Moliere
What were Dean Ornish, Mehmet Oz, Dan Brown, the Dalai Lama, and I all doing in Woodstock, New York, last week?
We — along with an assortment of Tibetan monks and doctors, Buddhist scholars, meditation researchers, and prize-winning
biomedical scientists in the field of aging, the immune system, stem cells, genetics, brain aging, stress physiology, and more from MIT, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Duke, and UCSF — were all part of a special conference at the Menla Center.
The subject of this conference: Longevity and Tibetan medicine.
If that seems intriguing, it was! Thanks to Maria Collier for this post. Continue reading “How the Dalai Lama can help you live to 120…”