Tsewang Dolkar Khangkar

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Tsewang Dolkar Khangkar (born 1959 in Kyirong, Tibet) is a doctor of traditional Tibetan medicine, currently exiled in India.

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Early life

She was born in Kyirong, southern Tibet, and about 2 years after 1959 Tibetan uprising, she went into exile in India through Nepal with her mother, a dangerous crossing of the Himalayas during which her two elder brothers died. [1]

Studies

She studied pulse reading, urine analysis, medicinal plants and minerals used in Traditional Tibetan medicine, pharmacology and Tibetan astrology. [1]

Between 1972 and 1978, she studied Tibetan medicine at the Tibetan Medical and Astrology in Dharamshala. [1] From 1978 until 1981, she completed her studies under the guidance of her mother, the famous Dr. Lobsang Dolma Khangkar. [1]

Practice

She runs a clinic (Dolkar Herbal Medicine Clinic) in Kalkaji, south of New Delhi since 1981, and treats patients in Mumbai and Hyderabad. [1]

She has written several books on Tibetan medicine. She is considered a specialist of cancer. [2]

Family

The daughter of Lobsang Dolma Khangkar, she married in 1977 with the Tibetan intellectual K. Dhondup with whom she had three daughters, two of whom are still living. [3] [4]

Publication

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Rajeshree Sisodia, Medicine Woman, 20-Feb-2005, boloji.com
  2. "Tibetan medicine cures cancer". The Times of India . 12 June 2009.[ failed verification ]
  3. Bertrand Odelys, Dharamsala, Chroniques tibétaines, Albin Michel, 2003, ISBN   2226142592
  4. K. Dhondup (1952–1995), Jamyang Norbu, 15 mai 1995