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Admission of New Recruits for Tibetan Medical & Astrology students at Men-Tsee-Khang College-2007
Men-Tsee-Khang invites applicants for the 16th Tibetan Medical studies and 8th Tibetan Astrological Studies. The attention of those who are interested in pursuing the Tibetan Medical studies and Tibetan Astrological studies may, please be invited on the following matters...


Green is In…Red is Out
Everyone these days – in one-way or another – seems to embrace the ‘green is in…red is out’ mantra. Let me explain my catchphrase before you assume that this is some kind of subversive political slogan. Green refers to vegetables and red to meats. Due to constant advice during the teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama about the importance of being a vegetarian...


Three-member doctors tour Norway for medical camps
Dr.Sonam Lhamo, CMO Dekyiling branch clinic; Dr. Dekhang Tsering Dorjee, Deputy Director, Materia Medica Department and Dr. Nyima Gyaltsen Mankhang, CMO Bandara Tibetan settlement clinic toured Sandvika, Namsos and MO I Rana in Norway from the 11th of August to the 3rd of September...


Farewell tea party for two resigning staff
Tuesday, October 31, 2006: The administration yesterday gave a farewell tea party to Mrs. Tseten Palkey, Chief Accountant and Mr. Tsering Choedup, Newletter & Website Editor-cum-Project Officer...

Men-Tsee-Khang inaugurates Solar dryer
Thursday, October 26, 2006: Men-Tsee-Khang administration yesterday inaugurated a Solar dryer at the Pharmaceutical Department. The inauguration was done by the Director Dr. Dawa la in presence of Deputy Director Dr. Namgyal Tsering...

Free medical camp at Bajarai village
On request from the Indo-Tibetan Friendship Association, Men-Tsee-Khang administration deputed Dr. Tsering Tsomo, a resident doctor of Mcleod branch clinic, for a one-day free medical camp...

Medical students undergo final examination
Saturday, October 21, 2006: The 13th recruits of medical students who have completed their five year college-term are presently undergoing final examinations that started on the 19th of October...

Training programme for branch doctors conclude
Saturday, October 21, 2006:More than 10 doctors from various branch clinics have come for a 5-day workshop-cum-training programme being organised by the Men-Tsee-Khang administration here in Dharamsala...

MTK-Delek jointly organize workshop on life support
Friday, October 20, 2006: The Men-Tsee-Khang (MTK) and the Delek Hospital organized a two-day workshop on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) on basic & advance life support at MTK on the 18th and 19th of October...

Inspector General of SFF visits Men-Tsee-Khang
Friday, October 06: The Inspector General (IG) Brig. Vijay Singh and Col S.K. Sharma, Special Frontier Force (SFF), Delhi, paid goodwill visit to Men-Tsee-Khang with their families yesterday at 12:30 p.m. Dapon Tashi Wangchuk also accompanied the team...

Function marks to felicitate New Deputy Director
Wednesday, 27 September: Men-Tsee-Khang administration yesterday felicitated new Deputy Director Dr. Namgyal Tsering with an official function to mark the day at Men-Tsee-Khang College hall after 4 pm...

Dr. Namgyal Tsering becomes new Deputy Director
Wednesday, September 20: Dr. Namgyal Tsering, the Principal of the Tibetan Medical & Astrological Institute, has been appointed the new Deputy Director of Men-Tsee-Khang w.e.f. 20 September...Under the article 27 of Men-Tsee-Khang’s Memorandum of Association, an elected two-member staff chaired by another...

Tibetan Medical Centre awaits opening in Kazakhstan
Wednesday, 20 September: The administration has decided to depute Dr. Sonam Dorjee, CMO of Poanta Sahib branch clinic, as the resident doctor of the proposed Tibetan Medical Centre in Uralsk, Kazakhstan, for the period of one year. The administration is in discussion...

Kazakhstan medical tour
Tuesday, 19 September: Dr. Kusang Dolma, CMO of Dalhousie Men-Tsee-Khang clinic visited Almaty and Astana in Kazakhstan for a medical camp from 5 – 30 August. She gave medical consultation to 71 patients collectively in the two regions. Majority of the patients are reported ...

Medical tour to Uzbekistan
Monday, 18 September: Dr. Tamdin Sangmo, CMO of Kollegal Men-Tsee-Khang clinic, toured Taskent and Andijon, Uzbekistan, from 18 July to 2 August for a medical consultation tour organised by Bobur Foundation...

Free medical camp at Dharamkot, Dharamsala:
In connection with the world health day, a free medical camp was organised by Men-Tsee-Khang on 7 April at Dharamkot, Dharamsala...

Doctor tours Norway for medical consultation
Saturday, 16 September: Dr. Nyima Gyaltsen Menkhang, CMO of Bandara Tibetan Settlement clinic, embarked on a medical consultation tour to MO I Rana, Norway, from 14 – 28 August...

Lecture, consultation tour to Japan
Thursday, September 07, 2006: A two-member team of Men-Tsee-Khang: Mr. Dorjee Wangyal, Director of Astrological Department and Dr. Penpa Tsering, researcher of the Sorig Literary Research Department, visited Tokyo, Japan, on medical & astrological lectures & consultations from 9 – 23 August...

Materia Medica team embarks on medicinal field trip to Lahual & Spiti:
Every year during the month of August, Materia Medica Department (MMD) of Men-Tsee-Khang embarks on a medicinal field excursion to different regions across Nepal, Sikkim and Ladakh, and especially the places bordering Tibet and India, and in South India...

Cold storage rooms inaugurated:
25 July: The director Dr Dawa inaugurated cold storage rooms of the pharmaceutical department yesterday at 4:30 p.m. Present during the inaugural hour were the director of the pharmaceutical department Dr Ngawang Khyentse, deputy director Dr Jamyang Tashi, the quality control analyst Mr. Tenzin Jigme and the technicians who built the cold storage system...

Down the memory lane A recap of the year that precedes:Men-Tsee-Khang turned 45 this march. The past one-year has seen many changes in the administrative structure. Having had new Director and Deputy Director nominated from within the Men-Tsee-Khang staff have attributed better understanding to the administrative protocol...

Men-Tsee-Khang tours Kalpa region
A three-member team headed by Dr Lobsang Shakya toured Kalpa area for a medical camp from 7-12 June. Mr. Kusang Tenzin and Mr. Tsering Gyaltsen accompanied the doctor. The tour came in the wake of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teaching on the Path to Liberation there...

Doctor attends Mind, Knowledge & Sustainability meeting
Dr Tenzin Namdul of Clinical Research Department attended a meeting on ‘Mind, Knowledge & Sustainability’ organized by the World Students’ Community for Sustainable Development, which works under the ‘Alliance for Global Sustainability’...


Dalai Lama inaugurates Tibetan Centre in Austria
His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Hüttenberg in Austria’s Carinthia province on 15 May to inaugurate an International Centre for Higher Tibetan Studies there...