This talk explores the last couple of decades of development in Tibetan medicine in eastern Tibet, particularly across Qinghai and Gansu provinces in the Tibetan region of Amdo. It first investigates the regional contemporary pharmacological lineages as counterparts to their historical antecedents. And then examines how both modern industrial innovations, as well as traditional rigor in practice and training, is leading the eastern plateau into a Tibetan medical renaissance.

About the speaker:

Tawni is interested in investigating the mind-body relationship foundational to facilitating healthy minds and bodies through biocultural and Tibetan medical paradigms for well-being. At the Center, she is particularly interested in work that contributes the cultural, social and environmental contexts that support practices and qualities of mind that lead to experiences of well-being across the life course, as well as aspects of its diversity among populations and their sociocultural contexts.

Tawni is a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medical doctor. Her research facilitates bridges across the Western scientific tradition and the Tibetan medical tradition, along with their attendant epistemologies, ontologies and pedagogical methods. Her doctoral work focused on embodiment in textual-oral transmission and perceptual techniques in differential diagnostics.