With Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo

The practice of cultivating compassion has enormous potential to benefit our health and wellness. In these challenging times, this message is as important and urgent as ever! How can we develop our personal capacity for compassion, our mental-emotional health, inner-peace, and wellness? How can we share these benefits with our friends, family, communities, and the whole world? In this week’s presentation, our guest Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche will offer insights and tools for cultivating compassion. Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo will explain the role of compassion from the view of Tibetan Medicine.

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

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Mingyur Rinpoche teaches throughout the world, with centers on five continents. His candid, often humorous accounts of his own personal difficulties have endeared him to thousands of students internationally. Mingyur Rinpoche is the abbot of Tergar Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Tergar Rigzin Khacho Targye Ling Monastery in Bodhgaya, India. He also teaches regularly throughout Europe, North, and South America, and Asia. He leads a growing number of Tergar Meditation Centers and Meditation Groups. Rinpoche is an internationally-acclaimed author of numerous books. His first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages.
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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.