We are proud to announce the publication of Compassion as Remedy in Tibetan Medicine: Healing Through Limitless Compassion by Dr. Jampa Yonten and Kyle Weaner, with a foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama.
This translation of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist text helps readers grasp the essence of healing and teaches healthcare practitioners how to develop limitless compassion, an essential quality—as our current healthcare system makes starkly clear.
Compassion as Remedy is a quietly revolutionary book about healthcare, ethics, and spiritual practice delivered as a commentary on a 2,500-year-old Tibetan text—the rGyud-bZhi (The Four Tantras), the treatise for Traditional Tibetan Medicine. This book translates and explains the rGyud-bZhi’s “The Physician Chapter.”
While many books have been written about other ancient holistic modalities such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are few on Traditional Tibetan Medicine. Compassion as Remedy is an integration of medicine and spiritual practice, which is central to holistic healing, and provides guidelines for ethical practice and developing wisdom and compassion.
Dr. Yonten includes examples from clinical practice, multicultural perspectives, and current neuroscience, providing readers with a rare view of compassion as remedy. In the words of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, “The ideal physician is one who combines sound medical understanding with compassion and wisdom.”
“A passionate case for alternative medicine with a deep spiritual cast.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Compassion as Remedy in Tibetan Medicine is a beautiful work that stands on its own in the field of medicine and should inspire countless physicians throughout the world to set their practice within the sphere of compassionate heart, combined with intelligence, pure intention, skillfulness, diligence, and social ethics.” —Matthieu Ricard, author of Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Transform Ourselves and the World
“This book will benefit all readers including physicians, healthcare practitioners, patients and those who are interested in maintaining good health, which is based on practice of compassion along with neuroscience.” —Dr. Tsewang Tamding. Visiting Physician of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Dr. Jampa Yonten is the medical director of Tibetan Healing and Wellness Center in Bangalore, India. He studied at Chagpori Tibetan Medical Institute, in Darjeeling, India, under Dr. Trogawa Rinpoche; received the Medicine Buddha empowerment from many renowned Rinpoches, including His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama; and was awarded the Gold Medal from the Indian Board of Alternative Medicine, in Kolkata, India. Dr. Yonten is based in Bangalore, India, and also practices and teaches in the US, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Kyle Weaner (Tenzin Samdrup) is a Tibetan medical practitioner, massage therapist, and yoga teacher. He studied Traditional Tibetan Medicine under Dr. Yonten as an apprentice and has received the Medicine Buddha initiation from His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa. He is the founder and director of Jivaka Wellness Center in West Virginia.
