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The International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine. Join us for our next conference Summer 2026

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The TCM Community will host A Midsummer TCM Journey 2026 online on 27 June 2026, bringing together practitioners, students, researchers, and enthusiasts of TCM.

At 11:00, IASTAM Vice President James Flowers @JimmyFlowers will join the discussion.

https://t.co/kEGTCcsCly

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WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre: Annual Report 2025

https://t.co/y6h4fJuvr6

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Does Tibetan medicine use animals as medicine?

Less and less. Stephan Kloos's new open-access article examines why Sowa Rigpa has been moving away from animal ingredients since the 1980s.
Read more:

https://t.co/Rz8yIvPVQ1

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https://t.co/ZSWGO9sgTR

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Hybrid Conference on Buddhism & Medicine

Buddhism and Medicine: People, Paradigms and Perspectives (21–23 May 2026), hosted by the Centre for Buddhist Studies.

https://t.co/ZOwMS6WAYO

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https://t.co/65OgkPihaB

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Charles Leslie Prize

Honouring Charles Leslie and the roots he planted in Asian medicine. For young and senior scholars, practitioners, and early-career voices send your original piece.

Submit by Sept 1, 2026.

https://t.co/IHfcBnCL3m

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Dear colleagues!

@piercesalguero invites you to contribute to Asian Medicine Zone
https://t.co/ydLKEh1YwD
Short notes, reflections, or video essays on Asian medicine are welcome from scholars at different stages of their careers. Interested? Get in touch!

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3rd National Sorig Conference with the theme “Research, Innovation and Evidence-Based Practice in Sowa Rigpa” ཞིབ་འཚོལ་དང་གསར་གཏོད་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་ལྡན་པའི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་ལག་ལེན།
Date: 15-16 of May
Organized by: Faculty of Traditional Medicine, KGUMSB
https://t.co/ZSWGO9sOJp

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The HCCA Lecture Series rolls out something special —
a live online launch for Crafting Potency
A journey through Sowa Rigpa medicine-making across the Himalayas

🗓 Apr 29, 2026
⏰ 6–8pm CET
💻 Live on Zoom

https://t.co/KGvztuGoe9

https://t.co/8j6D6CEWDJ

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Please register for and attend Choi Sung-woons' talk on the Royal Medical System in Choson Dynasty Korea-including a comparison with Qing China medical literature. Please click on the link for details including registration.

https://t.co/yQBuxm1xEb

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Visit the Li-Fu Museum of Chinese Medicine (立夫中醫藥博物館) in Taichung, where the current exhibition Beauty & Cosmetics in Chinese Medicine (中醫美容與化妝展覽) explores how traditional herbs and practices connect beauty, skincare, and health across time.

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Next week, IASTAM council member @LanAngelaLi will give a talk at Nanyang Technological University.

Register here:
https://t.co/YZ2AWhuu3q

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This paper is on developing Clinical Practice Guidelines for Ayurveda, a relatively unexplored area of work. Earlier a group of authors had argued for the urgent need for CPGs in Ayurveda- https://t.co/ULkpHm5w2x
This article is in follow up to that https://t.co/I6nKfjSzjR

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Dr Gao Shanshan (高珊珊)'s thesis: Forging a Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine in the Early People’s Republic of China: An Examination of Wuxing 新中國中醫基礎理論的構建：以五行為中心

The link may load slowly, but it is functional:

https://t.co/9RqqI9awjx

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Introducing the latest issue of Asian Medicine:
https://t.co/cdPm8i9AHB

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Dr Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira @spiritualscien6 will be at NTU for the seminar: "The Power Within: Trance States and Mental Healing in 20th-Century East Asia"

-26 March 2026, 1:30-3 PM

For online participants:
Join us via Microsoft Teams by scanning the QR code.

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An Interesting article - Wellness or medicine? Use and perception of Ayurveda in Germany: data from an online-representative cross-sectional study -

https://t.co/f6nxIl9OE9

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Invitation to the 2nd Vienna Sowa Rigpa Dialogues event of 2026:

A project presentation and discussion with Dr. Katharina Sabernig on Trees of Knowledge

Date: March 19, 2026 Time: 3:30 – 5:00 pm CET Join via Zoom: ID 640 3102 1911, Code 765836

https://t.co/zn1gQPI33J