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20/05/22 08:21 AM IST

Sowa Rigpa

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  • The National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa, Leh, under Ministry of Ayush in collaboration with Namgyal Institute of Tibetology (NIT), Sikkim is organizing a two days National workshop on Sowa-Rigpa for the Sowa-Rigpa practitioners from North Eastern States.
  • This is for the first time that such an event is being held in Gangtok.
Sowa Rigpa 
  • The Sowa-Rigpa, system of medicine is one of the oldest surviving and well-documented medical traditions of the world with history of more than 2500 years.
  • It is also  popularly known as Amchi and popularly practiced in Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Darjelling.
Source-PIB 

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