The thangka way of life
With all the recent tension between India and China, this might make China frown further. Friends of Tibet Foundation have an open invitation for a special documentary, Blue Buddha: Lost Secrets of Tibetan Medicine by David Suzuki on August 8 that will be screened at the School of Design (IDC) inside IIT Powai.

The film will presented by Dr Dorjee Rapten Neshar of Men-Tsee-Khang, the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute of HH the Dalai Lama. The documentary aims to explain Tibet's comprehensive though still enigmatic medical system. It acquaints the viewer with its traditional medical wisdom that has been preserved in a series of paintings called thangkas. That’s what we call a novel way to learn about medicine.