Tibetan Ayurvedic Medicine Doctor and Buddhist Monk Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D., B.T.M.S.,
Renowned Author and Tibetan Medicine Teacher
Previously Professor with the H.H. Dalai Lama's Tibetan Medicine and Astro Institute
Teacher of Vijaya Stallings and Losang Jinpa
 

Vijaya's Tibetan Medicine Teacher

One of Vijaya Stallings teachers has been Tibetan Monk Doctor Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D..  Dr. Rapgay is one of the foremost Tibetan doctors in the world today and is also a psychologist at University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Rapgay is a renowned author of many Tibetan Medicine books and has written "The Tibetan Book of Healing", which contains many helpful practices, going into diet, herbs and meditation and providing a number of methods and techniques to follow for self-healing purposes.  top

Vijaya Stallings studied Tibetan Ayurvedic Pancha Karma Massage with the renowned Tibetan Monk Doctor Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D. Dr. Rapgay, a previous personal physician to H.H. the Dalai Lama is one of the leading Tibetan physicians in the world today and is also a psychologist at UCLA. This graphic is either reprinted with permission or is made available under the "fair use" provision (17 USC §107) of the U.S. Copyright Act for research and non-profit educational and religious purposes only. Picture source: http://www.lotuspress.comDr. Lobsang Rapgay was born in Lhasa, Tibet. When he was four years old, he and his family fled the Chinese in a seven day trek across the Himalayas on foot and horseback. His family settled in Dharamsala, and Lobsang was sent to a Catholic boarding school. Upon graduating, he attending Delhi University and also began training as a Buddhist monk. He received his masters degree in history from Delhi University, and then began to study Tibetan Medicine.  Lobsang also became a Deputy Secretary and translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1978. Lobsang continued to work for His Holiness and study Tibetan Medicine at the Tibetan Medicine and Astro. Institute in Dharamsala, India (www.tibetan-medicine.org).
 

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He received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1986, but he was increasingly convinced that he needed to understand the Western mind better, in order to best help his people. He decided to come to the United States and study psychology. He discussed this with His Holiness, who was sad to see him go, but who agreed that studying Western psychology was extremely important. He came to the United States in 1988, and has since completed his training.

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Lobsang is working on being a monk and simultaneously living in Western society. He is trying to find a balance between these two worlds. By doing this he hopes to make life meaningful for his people in spite of what has happened to their homeland. He works as a psychologist at UCLA and as a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and has written several books on Tibetan healing, including Health for Life (Healing Series), May 1998. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

 

Dr Lobsang Rapgay
UCLA
2206 Benecia Avenue
Westwood, California 90064 USA
Tel: 1-310-282-9918
Fax : 1-310-282-3424
E-mail: Lobsang@ucla.edu

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Dr. Rapgay's Lectures on Video and Audio

Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center Case Conference.
Source: http://womenshealth.med.ucla.edu/healthcareproviders/weeklycase.htm

Click here to watch a video of Dr. Rapgay entitled: "Fibromyalgia: A Mind Body Approach"    http://womenshealth.med.ucla.edu:8080/ramgen/Feb25.rm

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Books by Dr. Rapgay:

Tibetan Medicine: A Holistic Approach to Better Health by Lobsang Rapgay, Dharamsala, India.

The Tibetan Book of Healing, by Lobsang Rapgay, 1996 Passage Press, Salt Lake City, UT.

Tibetan Therapeutic Massage by Lobsang Rapgay, 1986 Dharamsala, India.

The Art of Tibetan Medical Urinalysis by Lobsang Rapgay, 1986 Dharamsala, India.

 

In his two study trips to the Himalayas (in 1999 and 2001) Losang Jinpa, has acquired and developed the largest library of English language books, video, audio and other publications on Tibetan Medicine - over 200 volumes.  Jinpa has made available at the Medicine Buddha Healing Center, the entire 53 audio tape series of the First International Congress on Tibetan Medicine (Washington, D.C., November 7-9, 1998).  Jinpa's 1700 volume library of books on Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Chinese Medicine include a rare out-of-press 12 issue collection of the "Tibetan Medicine Publication of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives" including technical articles by Dr. Lobsang Rapgay, Dr. Peme Dorjee, and Dr. Yeshe Donden and the sMan-rTsis Journal of the H.H. Dalai Lama's Tibetan Medicine & Astro Institute (TMAI) in Dharamsala, India. 



 

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Source: Stallings, Vijaya, M.A., The Experience of Ayurveda – A Guide to Re-Awakening the Divine Healer within All of Us, Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2004: Online: Available: www.Ayurveda-Berkeley.com, May 20, 2003.  E-Mail: Not Available  (1) 510-292-6696.

 

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