Cairn Tibetan
Medicine
Cairn Tibetan Medicine Materia Medica, Psychotherapy
and Counselling Online, was initiated in December 1999, during
the Bouddhanath Stupa Health Anthropology Seminar, which aims
were to investigate and support the potential resources for
Tibetan Medicine found in the local community, as well as
address from a consensual diagnosis what were the recent
epidemiological and health education concerns facing the
Tibetan and Nepalese target- community in contemporary Nepal,
and its important migration diaspora linked with N-India and
Tibet (TAR China).
In
terms of Research and Development (R&D) for Culturally
Appropriate Health Education, the issues of Health Education
and Treatment meant that Cairn/SXC Network had to
progressively increase its visibility and credibility at
grassroots, survey the resources existing in the Bauddha
strategic -site, while also seeking for autonomy in terms of
self-sustainable initiatives. Indeed, survival of strategic
decision-making and project management at local level seldom
fits with being busy drafting numerous projects to local
donors, which redtapes, jargons, heavy paperwork and lobbying
led Nepal Development Aid to what it is today. In short, some
balance must prevail. Short- term budget hardly answers the
vision of a long-term intervention,
thereupon...
Although close links were continuously maintained with
selected international donors, HEIs and INGOs, Cairn/SXC first
aim was and remains to be an autonomous and dynamic
independent entity, based first on local resources for
continuing the projects and vision started during the 1999
Seminar. Daily collaboration with local Traditional Health
Care Centers and Primary Health Care Workers, including the
SXSSC Drug- Abuse Rehabilitation and Detoxification Center
(Fr. W. Robins & Rajendra Shrestha) and with selected
Amchis or Lamas involved in Tibetan Traditional Healing &
Tsa-rLung Psychotherapy grassroots activities, are the
substance of Cairn philosophy.
Cairn
believes that Tibetan Traditional Medicine not only retains a
huge capacity to address a wide variety of health,
psychosomatic and rejuvenation problems, but also represents
an important pool of still untap resources in the joint-areas
of Spiritual practices, Rejuvenation and
Arts&Therapy.
Since
the early 1980's cross-cultural research in Transpersonal
Psychology (ITAS-ATB: Tarab Tulku), Cairn has focused its
R&D on the utilization of Tibetan Philosophy Tantras and
Tsa-rLung Rejuvenation Healing technics as one of the more
enlighted potentials contained in the social fabric and
cultural heritage of the Himalayan
region.
Lately, Cairn Consortium decided to contribute to the
revitalization of the Tibetan Medicine Dbase Research System
through a pilot-projet focused on Drug-Abuse and/or HIV/AIDS
health education, treatment and counselling. From an initial
networking with selected PHC and amchi health
centres and the improvement of access to medicinal raw
materials to disadvantaged target-groups, the programme is
currently engaged in training research, which aims to directly
address the problem of remedials to the pressing health,
social and spiritual issues facing the Himalayan/Tibetan
medical system. This accordingly studies the Materia Medica,
Philosophy and Tantras Yogas, as well as the belief and
attitudinal social dynamics of the target-groups and
society.
It
goes without saying, that from those activities, a core of
precious opportunities surface for European/Western
scholars, researchers, students and eventual people seeking
for relevant Tibetan Medicine related resources and/or
help...
Cairn International Studies will improve
European students' ability to work in an increasingly
globalized environment in Nepal and surrounding Asia. The goal
is to prepare European students and trainees for focused
international tasks, promote interactive and communicative
skills and encourage an open and receptive attitude towards
the Himalayan region ethnic cultures. Cairn Euro-Asian Network
will further increase opportunities for internships,
field-research and online studies within an international
dimension and with selected international experts
cooperation.
Cairn Cross-Cultural
Awareness program stresses that for an Euro-Asian
cross-cultural training to be effective as an enhancement for
an international development organization, it must deal with
several complexities in the learning process, including that
of providing flexible options for genuine Projects-based
Cultural Immersion. Just providing information, or some online
courses, is not an effective approach for the future
Euro-Asian relations, beyond that of a basic introductory
level.
Cairn believes that such
training should be an interactive intercultural process,
through the use of flexible training modules being a menu of
Cultural Immersion Options organized in strategic
target-sites, where the behavioral situation, case studies,
scenarios, critical incidents, catharsis and crisis
resolution, will bring to participants and beneficiaries
focused and longterm results.
Cairn is also launching a stepwise
development of a Mixed Mode Postgraduates and Masters
ECDL/ECTS Certification centered around disciplines initiated
from the EU partners units and linked with the pressing issues
of Nepal/Asian LDCs Development Management. This unique mode
of study allows students the flexibility to study through a
combination of residential home courses in the EU, field-study
in Asia, group sessions and flexible distance learning.
The recommended pattern of study starting in 2004/2005 is
currently under-design, for the following
options.
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