Mustang District/Lo Monthang
Mustang is situated right at the northern border between Nepal and Tibet, at altitudes ranging from around 2,000 to ove...
Clinics in Mustang
To supplement the clinic at Lo Kunphen, in 2004 three additional village clinics were opened, to provide services near...
The Tradition of Amchi Medicine
“Medicine is passed down like a religious lineage, from father to son. It is also like a da...
Introduction
Lo Kunphen school and Mentsikhang (house of medicine and astrology) is a small initiative for about 30 students in the Himalayan mountain district of Mustang in Northern Nepal. It was established in 1999, as the vision of two brothers, Gyatso and Tenzin Bista, both amchis (doctors of Tibetan, or Himalayan, medicine) born and practising in Mustang. Their aim is to train young people from Mustang and other mountain districts of Nepal in amchi skills and knowledge, thus promoting and further developing the discipline, providing a service for local people and a profession for the students. The school was built with support from a British charity, KINOE (Kids In Need Of Education ) on land belonging to Gyatso and Tenzin’s family, where they also run an amchi clinic that serves local people.
manifest in the relationship between body, mind and soul, especially on the mind aspect of disorders. For Sowa Rigpa practitioners and followers of Buddhism, ignorance is the root cause of all diseases.