DHARAMSHALA: Around 300 participants including Tibetans, Indians and westerners are currently attending a conference on ‘Body, Mind and Life’ which is under-way at the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute in Dharamshala. The three-day conference is being organised by the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute from 26-28 June and aims to contribute to the physical and mental well-being of human beings by integrating the essence of both oriental and occidental cultures.

The chief guest  at the inaugural session of the  conference was Dr Arun Kapur, Executive Director of Vasant Valley School, New Delhi and a well-known educationist in India. Secretaries of the various departments of the Central Tibetan Administration, heads of non-governmental organisations, doctors from branch clinics of Mentseekhang also attended the inaugural ceremony.

The three-day conference will deliberate on five main topics namely, ‘The General Concept of Body, Mind and Life’, ‘Seeds of Body, Mind and Life’, ‘Relationship between Body, Mind and Life’, ‘Factors Responsible for the Disturbance of the Body, Mind and Life’ and ‘Maintaining and Restoring Body, Mind and Life’.

A total of twenty speakers including scholars from America, Geshes from all the four sects of Tibetan Buddhism and a nun from Dolmaling Nunnery will speak during the conference. Five Tibetan doctors (Menrampa) and five Tibetan Astrologers (Tsirampa) will also speak on Tibetan Medicine and Tibetan Astrology.