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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting, but suspicious.,
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This review is from: Health for Life: Secrets of Tibetan Ayurveda (Hardcover)
This may be a good compendium about the subject, but step lightly. I got this book hoping to learn about some qigong/yoga-like exercises known as "the 5 tibetans" and they are indeed featured. The book is well put together.
I noticed one section before the above exercises mentioning "Tibetan Tai Chi" - and there is no such thing. It's like saying "Australian Bluegrass". I visited the web site of the person he refers to as his source on this subject and the lineage is nonsense. Master Liu Song sudied at shaolin and has learned some sort of art with roots in Tibet, but it is not tai chi chuan, which is a very specific chinese martial art that came together in Chen village and which was not even named "tai chi chuan" until Yang Lu Chan popularized it the 19th century. Sachs compounds the confusion by mistranslating "chi" in the phrase tai chi chuan. With such offhand attributions in print, I wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the book. |
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Health for Life: Secrets of Tibetan Ayurveda by Robert Sachs (Hardcover - Nov. 1997)
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