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Medicinal Mandala: Tibetan Medicine in Ritual

Scholar Anna Sehnalova reports on the nature of a healing ritual intended to pacify the whole universe.

The Tibetan medical system derives from different spheres of knowledge and is tightly tied to religion, philosophy, cosmology and tantric practices. This complexity is expressed and “replayed” by the ritual. Within the cosmological framework for the medicine, both medical concepts and medicinal substances, as well as the act of healing become ‘mandalised’. Similarly, human body and Buddhist philosophical concepts are fitted into the mandalic organizational scheme. Its purpose is to embrace and position every entity in order to make the whole unit, i.e. body, universe etc., balanced.











When: Sun., Mar. 23, 2014 at 10:00 am
Where: Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St.
212-620-5000
Price: $15; $13.50 members
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Scholar Anna Sehnalova reports on the nature of a healing ritual intended to pacify the whole universe.

The Tibetan medical system derives from different spheres of knowledge and is tightly tied to religion, philosophy, cosmology and tantric practices. This complexity is expressed and “replayed” by the ritual. Within the cosmological framework for the medicine, both medical concepts and medicinal substances, as well as the act of healing become ‘mandalised’. Similarly, human body and Buddhist philosophical concepts are fitted into the mandalic organizational scheme. Its purpose is to embrace and position every entity in order to make the whole unit, i.e. body, universe etc., balanced.

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