Tibetan Medicine Insights on the Covid-19 Crisis

Join us for this free webinar with Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo to discuss Tibetan Medicine insights on the COVID-19 crisis.

Traditional Tibetan Medicine offers textual teachings, and centuries of practical knowledge on the nature of contagious, epidemic diseases. Our guests have fascinating first-hand experience with the Novel Corona Virus. We will discuss the traditional methods of treatment and management of contagious diseases at every stage of development.

This webinar will offer insights into the experience of the global Tibetan Community with regards to this pandemic. Join us for this webinar, and absorb insights from Tibetan Medicine theory as well as current experiences pertaining to the current global crisis.

Moderated by Adam Okerblom: Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM), Tibetan Medicine Practitioner

Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo

Khewang (Tibetan for Honored Scholar) Phuntsog Wangmo (Ping Cuowangmu) received her advanced degree from the Lhasa University School of Traditional Medicine in 1988 after completing her five-year training program and two-year residency. During that time she studied with the Khenpos Troru Tsenam and Gyaltsen, two of Tibet’s foremost Tibetan Medicine doctors.

Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo had the exceptional opportunity of extensive clinical training under Khenpo Troru Tsenam for four years. Thereafter, she dedicated many years of work as a doctor of Tibetan Medicine in Eastern Tibet where she collaborated with and directed the implementation of A.S.I.A. the non-profit organization founded by Professor Namkhai Norbu. After that, she worked on behalf of A.S.I.A. setting up hospitals and training centers in the remote regions of Sichuan Province and Chamdo Prefecture.

From 1997-2000, she has been the A.S.I.A. project coordinator in Tibet for the development of Gamthog Hospital in collaboration with expatriate personnel as well as the overall health coordinator and practitioner of traditional Tibetan medicine supervising health activities throughout the surrounding region of Chamdo Prefecture.
In 2007 she co-founded the American Tibetan Medical Association (ATMA), a national organization representing the Tibetan medical profession within the United States. Its mission is to preserve, protect, improve, and promote the philosophy, knowledge, science and practice of Tibetan medicine for the benefit of humanity.

In 2012 Menpa Phuntsog Wagmo was appointed the International Director of the School of Tibetan Medicine
She is currently in residence at the Shang Shung Institute of America, the international seat of the School of Tibetan Medicine, where she continues in her leadership as Director and International Director of the Institute’s national and international programs in U.S.A., Russia and Tenerife Spain.