The Tibetan Approach to Mental Health

Speaker: Dr. Jamyang Dolma, Head, Clinical Research Department, Men-Tsee-Khang, Dharamsala

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC-Asia Project

Health in general, according to Tibetan medicine is based on the harmony of physical and mental state. Therefore the approach to mental health in Tibetan medicine deals with harmonizing the disturbed mind by understanding the mind, its nature and its connection with the body's principle energies which is basically related to the five elements