TIBETAN MEDICINE CONGRESS - 10th anniversary of the New Yuthok Institute

The New Yuthok Institute is an Association founded by Prof. Yonten Arya (T. Sherpa) with several medical doctors and psychologists to preserve and spread the age-old teachings of Tibetan Medicine.
This particular medical system is distinguished from all other Eastern Medicines because of its strong spiritual and psychological matrix linked to the connection initially created with Bon shamanism and, later and especially, because of its strong link to Tibetan Buddhism.
It is a well-known fact that Buddhism is at the center of Tibetan Medicine which began with the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni, himself, and it is just this close and essential relationship with Buddhism which sets the Tibetan system apart from all others. 
Tibetan Medicine, in addition to its high ethical values, gives us a detailed description of the mind, the mental states and how they function. Today, much of this large body of information has been scientifically validated by neuroscience. The Tibetan view takes not only the individual and biological aspects of the mind into account but also its energetic and spiritual dimension. It is this dimension which dictates how we view all things and how they take shape in our minds.
It is especially, though not only, for this reason that Tibetan Medicine has awakened great interest among the community of psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health workers.
Tibetan Medicine is also unique because it doesn’t isolate itself from medical-scientific views and, in fact, embraces and complements them to offer an extraordinary contribution not only because of the therapeutic results it achieves but also because of its ability to integrate with scientific medicine and with other complementary medicines. 
Tibetan Medicine, today, provides the West with an extraordinary opportunity because TM can act as a bridge to unite the various scientific, medical and psychological disciplines and can provide a path to achieve the ‘humanization’ of medical care. 
With this Congress, the New Yuthok Institute celebrates its tenth anniversary by presenting aspects of the important training it has provided to many psychologists, medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, naturopaths and health workers in general and the results it has achieved in the context of clinical applications.

8.45
Registration of the participants

9.15
Welcome from the President of N.Y.I.

9.30
Opening of the ceremony, the guest of honour, Professor Gian Giuseppe Filippi, will light the butter lamp in front of the Medicine Buddha thangka

9.45
Welcome from the Authorities
Professor Gian Giuseppe Filippi, Professor of Indology, University of Venice, Italy

10.00
Guest of honour, Professor Gian Giuseppe Filippi, will give a khatag and certifcate to the founding members and affiliates for their voluntary work for the N.Y.I.

10.40
Tibetan Medicine and Homeopathy
Dr. Victorine Cumero, Physician, Acupuncturist, Homeopath, Expert in Tibetan Medicine, President of N.Y.I.

11.10
Relation between Buddhism and Tibetan Medicine
Prof. Pasang Yonten Arya Tendi Sherpa, Ex-Director of Mentseekhang Institute (Tibetan medicine college) of Dharamsala (India), Founder and Present Director of N.Y.I.

11.40
Tibetan and Western Medicine
Possibilities of Integration,15 years in Post Graduated Medical Education of Tibetan Medicine in Germany
Dr. Med Walburg Maric’Oehler, President of the German Medical Acupuncture/ DAEGfA, Founder of the Post Graduated Educational Program in Tibetan Medicine for Western Doctors in Germany (1993)

12.10
Products of Tibetan Medicine
Dr. H. Schwabl, Direttore della ricerca sull’efficacia dei prodotti terapeutici Tibetani-Padma Pharmaceutical Company AG (Svizzera)

12.40
Compassion and Tibetan Meditation as a psychological therapy for personal transformation
Prof. Gioacchino Pagliaro, Director of U.O.C of Hospital Clinical Psychology, Department of Oncology, Local Health Authority of Bologna. Contract Professor of Clinical Psychology at Padova University,Expert in Tibetan Naturopathy (N.Y.I.)

13.10
Discussion

13.40
Lunch break

15.00
Tibetan Medicine and Oncology
Dr. Alfredo Celano, Physician, Specialist in Oncology, Expert in Tibetan Medicine. Oncology clinic, Torino San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Italy.

15.30
Tibetan Medicine in daily medical practice: clinical cases
Dr. Simonetta Nicolai, Vice-President of N.Y.I., Physician, Acupuncturist, Homeopath, Expert in Tibetan Medicine

16.00
Presentation of some cases cured with Tibetan Medicine
Dr. Tenzin Thupten, Physician, Acupuncturist, Expert in Tibetan Medicine

16.30
Tea break

17.00
Empathic support during the end of life
Dr. Daniela Muggia, thanatologist. President of the Association Tonglen ONLUS Italy (Charity)

17.30
Discussion

18.00
Conclusion
Prof. Pasang Yonten Arya

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