Online: What is Health? A Buddhist View in the Time of Pandemic
with Dr. Eliot Tokar
Thursday, December 9th, 2021 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
For more than a year and a half, the world’s population has been affected by the COVID pandemic. It has produced extraordinary amounts of stress, displacement and suffering. This crisis has focused us on our health as well as that of our families, communities and nation. It has demonstrated both the benefits and limits of what modern medicine and science can offer us in understanding and treatment.
But epidemics and human suffering are not recent phenomena. Along with its spiritual teachings on the nature and solutions to human suffering, Buddhism has for centuries aligned itself with various medical traditions that offer us a clear and precise ecological understanding of health as well as treatments for both physical and mental suffering.
Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa) is one such system of medical science inspired by a Dharmic view of life and health. It integrates native Tibetan medical knowledge with primary influences from the Indian Vedas and the Perso-Arabic and Hellenic (Greek) traditions along with some aspects of the Chinese medical tradition. It has been in continuous practice for centuries throughout the Himalayan region, and subsequently in South and East Asia, Eastern Europe and most recently in Western Europe and North America. Tibetan medicine provides the modern world with an enormous wealth of accumulated information regarding health and healthcare, contextualized within a Buddhist perspective that becomes even more relevant as we face this watershed moment in public health worldwide.
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Eliot Tokar
Eliot Tokar is a traditional Tibetan medicine doctor and internationally experienced writer and lecturer. He has practiced Tibetan medicine in NYC since 1993, and is one of the first Westerners to have received extensive textual and clinical training in this field.
Eliot began his studies of medicine in 1983 with Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, and then from 1986 as an apprentice to Dr. Trogawa Rinpoche; both co-founders of the Tibetan Medical and Astro. Institute (Men-Tsee-Khang) in Dharamsala, India. He has additionally trained in key aspects of traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine.
Eliot has served as an advisor to organizations such as the American Medical Student Association, and has lectured at institutions such as Yale Univ., Princeton Univ., Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis, NY Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the NY Botanical Garden and at the Asia Society (NYC). Eliot’s writings have appeared in American and international books and journals and are also available online.