PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 15th 2024
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The beauty of Tantric Buddhism is its variety of practices. But that means it is easy to feel lost. Which practices are best for you? With the modern guidance of Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, you can find your spiritual match by exploring the 12th-century Tibetan teacher Yuthok Yönten Gönpo’s two treasures—Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig.
Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medical) diagnosis and treatment revolves around elemental type—wind, fire, and earth/water. The Yuthok Nyingthig offers a complete Tantric Buddhist cycle of practices that are well suited for each type. In this book, you will learn your elemental type, diet and lifestyle modifications for each type, and which practices are most beneficial for each type, focusing on what it means to nourish, detox, or fast—spiritually and psychologically.
In this unique presentation of the interconnectedness of healing and spirituality, Let Meditation be thy Medicine can help new and experienced practitioners discover a personal path to being the original and organic you.
Print Book:
5 x 7 inches
Paperback
220 pages
Join Dr. Nida Chenagtsang for a series of events and book talks in New York, Los Angeles, Portland and San Francisco!
About the Author
Born in Amdo, Malho, in Northeastern Tibet, Dr. Nida began his early studies of Sowa Rigpa at the local Tibetan medical hospital. Later, he was awarded a scholarship to enter the Lhasa Mentsikhang or Tibetan Medical University, where he completed his degree in 1996, with practical training at the Tibetan Medicine hospitals in Lhasa and Lhoka.
Alongside his medical education, Dr. Nida trained in Vajrayana with teachers from every school of Tibetan Buddhism. In particular, he trained in the Longchen Nyingthig tradition of the Nyingma school with his root guru Ani Ngawang Gyaltsen and in the Dudjom Tersar tradition with Chönyi Rinpoche and Semo Dechen Yudrön. He received complete instruction in the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage, the unique spiritual tradition of Tibetan Medicine, from his teachers Khenpo Tsultrim Gyaltsen and Khenchen Troru Tsenam, and was requested to continue the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage by Jamyang Rinpoche of the Rebkong ngakpa and ngakma (i.e. non-monastic yogi and yogini) community.
A well-known poet in his youth, Dr. Nida later published many articles and books on Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition in Tibetan and English, which have been translated into several languages. He has extensively researched ancient Tibetan healing methods, and has gained acclaim in East and West for his revival of little-known Tibetan external therapies.
Dr. Nida is the Founder and Medical Director of the Sowa Rigpa Institute of Tibetan Medicine and of Sorig Khang International: Foundation for Traditional Tibetan Medicine. He is also the co-founder and principal teacher of Pure Land Farms center for Tibetan medicine, meditation, and rejuvenation in Los Angeles; and the co-founder of the International Ngakmang Institute, which was established to preserve and support the unique Rebkong non-monastic yogi and yogini culture in modern Tibetan society.
In addition to his work as a physician, Dr Nida trains students in Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition in over forty countries around the world.
