| Monday: | 10:00am to 4:00pm |
| Wednesday: | 10:00am to 4:00pm |
| Saturday: | 10:00am to 4:00pm |
| Phone: | 01-6208384 (office) |
| Email: | thranguclinic@gmail.com |
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Managing In-chage: Nyima Tashi (Tibetan Herbal Medicine Doctor) |
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Treasure: Dorje Tsering (Astrologist) |
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| Clinic staff making incense | |
The construction of a new building, beside the Thrangu Medical Clinic has been started.
It is being built for the Tibetan medicine section, where Tibetan herbal medicine will be produced. The Mentsi Khang incense will also be produced here. The clinic has already bought machine in India to make incense. The machine costs about eight hundred thousand rupees. It will be brought here soon.
If the clinic is able to raise sufficient fund, it is planning to add a floor for a Tibetan medical room, an acupuncture room and a public toilet (for patients). It may cost more than NRS.900,000/- to add a second floor. Therefore, Thrangu Mentsi Khang (The medical and astrological centre) is looking for donations.
If you would like to donate and support the project, please contact the manager, Lama Yonten or make a donation via Thrangu Dharma Centers or non-profit organizations near your town.
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On August 27, a dental camp was held at Namo Buddha. It was organized by Taiwan Dental Association. About seventy monks were examined and some monks also received dental hygiene treatment. The clinic staff also assisted at the camp.
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| Dental Camp | Dr. Joe From U.S.A. |
The four days of free health camp was successfully held at Namo Buddha, Thrangu Clinic. It was organized by Sibu Namo Buddha Buddhist Society, Malaysia. The specialist doctors of Abdomen and liver, skin and STD from Kathmandu city were hired for the camp. They also brought medical equipment as well for the camp. According to the record, more than thousand lay people came for checkup. Along with the medicine, the patients were offered souvenirs, a paper stated about the Bodhichitta practice.
The free camp sponsor, Namo Buddha Buddhist Society also offered meals to sangha who are staying for summer retreat, dedicating to all the people. Every morning, Green Tara puja and evening Medicine Buddha puja were at the clinic shrine hall so that it may benefit those people who are not feeling well and pray that all the people may be freed from any kind and illness and suffering.
On the last day of the camp, the resident lama, Master Lama Ngawang and Mdm. Kelline Ng offered souvenirs and thanked all the staff of the clinic, managing director Lama Yonten and Jamyang Dorje for their great effort to organize this camp. The sponsors are very much pleased and hoping to help in near future, too.
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| FRE EYE CAMP 2011 | |
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In 1978, when the retreat centre at Namo Buddha was established, there were some monks practicing there, but there were no health care facilities. When the monks got sick they had to walk to the nearest city, as they had no transportation. Some of the monks in the shedra, such as Lama Wangdue, Lama Pema Tsewang, and Lama Dawa, kept some common medicines on hand to give to monks and villagers when they got sick. The villagers were happy to know that the monks could provide them with medicine.
After a while, some of Rinpoche’s disciples began coming to Namo Buddha to meditate and would bring medicines with them. In this way the monks were able to help the local people. Rinpoche thought that the monks at Namo Buddha as well as many villagers were being benefited by this.
In 1994 Lama Yonten joined the shedra, and Rinpoche told him that because of his family medical heritage it would be best if he could take care of patients at the same time. Soon, foreign volunteers began coming from time to time to offer their help, working with the monks and teaching them about medicine. In 1994 Rinpoche decided that there should be a clinic at Namo Buddha and began to look for sponsors.
A disciple of Rinpoche’s from Germany sponsored the construction of a two-room clinic near the shedra building. A local doctor was hired, and volunteers would sometimes come to help. Lama Yonten, Jamyang Dorje, and Tsering Gyurmey treated the villagers but faced great difficulty: The clinic building had no running water and no toilet. Lama Yonten explained the problems to Rinpoche, who said that if funds could be raised from sponsors, a new clinic building could be built near the gate, at the edge of the monastery grounds. This would avoid creating a disturbance at the monastery and also make it easier for elderly patients because they wouldn’t have far to walk.
In 2004 Lama Yonten requested Rinpoche’s permission to go into retreat. He was replaced by Jamyang Dorje, who had been working at the Vajra Vidya Dispensary, and several monks from the SMD Branch School. Jamyang Dorje staffed the clinic, contacted sponsors, and worked with Rinpoche’s general secretary, making great efforts without getting discouraged. The first donations were collected by the volunteer doctor Diana Lucas. Donations were also received from disciples in Canada and the United States, in particular through Dr. John Barnhill, Dr. Dawn Hutchinson, and the Himalayan Children’s Fund. Construction began on the new clinic, and four years later it was completed. When Lama Yonten came back from the retreat center, Rinpoche asked him to work as the director of the clinic.
Lama Yonten, Choe Bhuchung, Dorje Thutop, and Gompo Lhasung are now working in the clinic. They are assisted by volunteer doctors and acupuncturists who come from abroad to provide medical care as well as training. The new clinic has very good accommodations for volunteers, clinic monks, and staff. There is also a nice waiting room, a pharmacy, an examination room for patients, and much better facilities than the old clinic. In the future there are plans to have a lab and offer dental care.
The clinic currently has one room devoted to the practice of Tibetan medicine, including acupuncture. At present, Nyima Tashi and Ngawang Dorje are doing treatment. They are having training in India. Nyima Tashi is from a lineage of Tibetan doctors and was also trained by his grandfather. The vision is to develop a full-fledged Tibetan medical and astrological facility (men tsi khang) that would provide training as well as medical and astrological services, and more space is needed for this. If the funds can be raised, a new building will be built, adjacent to the existing clinic, devoted to the entire range of Tibetan medical/astrological practice, with an examination room, a room for preparing medicines, a classroom, a room for astrology, office space, living quarters, and a public toilet (which the new clinic does not have). The doctors plan to produce Tibetan medicines for distribution and to teach all aspects of Tibetan medical practice to many people—both monks and lay disciples thus providing vast benefit to beings.
