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As the West garners more medical knowledge from the East, the vice-versa effect is happening.

The Dalai Lama’s personal physician acknowledges Western medicine’s importance but still prefers Tibetan medicine and believes in its effectiveness.

“Only Tibetan medicine is not sufficient,” Dr. Dawa Dolma said. “We don’t have facilities for emergencies.”

Dolma, the 14th Dalai Lama’s personal physician, spoke Tuesday night at the Hall Center for the Humanities about the nature and history of Tibetan medicine.

She said that while the United States was starting to look at more holistic medicine, Tibet was welcoming Western medicine and training their students in both methods. Western medicine can help injuries and accidents better because Tibetan medicine does not work in a way that can treat those problems, she said.



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