The Tibetan Art of Living : Wise Body, Mind, Life [Hardcover]

Christopher Hansard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 4, 2002

Tibetan medicine is one of the world's most ancient and sophisticated systems of healing. In "The Tibetan Art of Living," Christopher Hansard guides us into its uniquely empowering worldview. His deep personal experience comes from having studied and mastered this system of medicine since he was four years old, and also through his extensive clinical practice.

Drawn from Tibetan Bon tradition, Hansard's journey leads us to a new and enlightened level of discovery. The principles to achieve ultimate health are applied to mind, body, and soul. The Tibetan approach relates our emotional state with our physical one, so that we learn how to improve our inner as well as our outer lives. We are our own best healers. Hansard shows us many simple ways we can include Tibetan Bon wisdom and spirituality in our everyday lives, from dietary guidelines, massage, and rejuvenation techniques to mind-strengthening skills, soul medicine, and Tibetan herbal wisdom for common ailments.

This is the first book to help us bring this age-old wisdom into our everyday lives. It is both a practical and spiritual bible in the Tibetan art of living.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The Tibetan Art of Living is a comprehensive guide to mind and body healing. Christopher Hansard, who says he has trained in Tibetan Bon medicine since the age of 4, provides a guide for putting the mind and body in balance by bringing thoughts and emotions into focus, cultivating wisdom and generosity, and practicing self-healing exercises. Touching on diet, the soul, and karma, Hansard promotes a holistic view of healing while illustrating with prominent cases from his own practice and explicit instructions for a variety of healing and meditative exercises. Going beyond Bill Moyers's work in Healing and the Mind, Hansard emphasizes that we can not only use the mind to prevent and cure illness, but that we can also use it to create and maintain a psychological balance which will carry us peacefully through life and into death. Wise and inspiring, The Tibetan Art of Living will set you on a sensible path to health and happiness. --Brian Bruya

From Publishers Weekly

"We should regard ourselves as pilgrims following an inner journey that is beautiful, scary, and sometimes difficult," says Tibetan B"n medicine practitioner Christopher Hansard. The Tibetan Art of Living: Wise Body, Mind, Life aims to assist readers on that journey by explaining how Tibetan medicine can foster wisdom, health and well-being. Hansard, director of clinical affairs at London's Eden Medical Center, carefully describes ways to incorporate this system of healing into everyday life, through dietary guidelines, herbal remedies, massage and other means.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Atria (June 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743451465
• ISBN-13: 978-0743451468
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,824,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A WONDERFUL TREASURE! BUY THIS BOOK!!!, August 19, 2002

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Bill Butler "Bill Butler" (Tarzana, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tibetan Art of Living : Wise Body, Mind, Life (Hardcover)

Tibetan Buddhism is the best system of medicine. Unfortunately,
there is no book on how to apply it in your life. Why, I don't
know. Dr. Yeshe Dhondon, author of "Health Through Balance"
and "Healing From the Source", gives us some scraps of applicable
information. He was His Holiness the Dali Lama's personal physician. But only scraps. And we are without this great science...until now. This book is the breakthrough and the IT
book. Go out and buy a copy or three. The author is a practioner of this science. And he tells you how to be too.
This won't be a very easy transition though. You will have to be patient. This is a really holistic approach! For example,
the nutritive value of your food is greatly affected by what
mood you are in when you eat it. I know that the author is authentic in these regards because of a comparison with Dr. Dhonden's books. Tastes are important in dietary health. And he tells you how to balance that. In regards to the other chapters, "acceptance" is a critical element in health care.
Acceptance of everything. So don't expect a "bim-bam" answer about everything. It's all a question of balance and will take some time getting used to. Like riding a bicycle for the first time. No. You don't have to be vegetarain. So some of you might feel good about that. I do hope that you buy this breakthrough book. And I do hope that the author continues with his good work. Thank you.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AN EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO BON MEDICINE AND CULTURE, June 3, 2003

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tsering damchog (india) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tibetan Art of Living : Wise Body, Mind, Life (Hardcover)

A student of mine gave me this book for appraisal. It is both excellent and clear description of the oldest of the Bon spiritual traditions of medicine and culture. As a doctor in the Bon way and a married teacher of the three types of Bon,it brings complex ideas very simple. This book is of the early Bon not Yung Drung Bon of the monks, but there is much that is the same. It is a genuine book and has got much praise from
other Bon teachers. The teacher of the author, his clan is known to us who come from Amdo and it is a good guide to the first of early Tibetan culture-the author is a dood doctor in the Tibretan way of Bon medicine when I met him somes years ago in Germany at a conference.I give the author much blessing.
Tsering Damchog, Nagpa Training School,Sikkim , India

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars re: The Tibetan Art Of Living, August 23, 2005

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Robin Song - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tibetan Art of Living : Wise Body, Mind, Life (Paperback)

Material in this book covers a wide area of easy to understand and very insightful information that can easily be applied to one's daily life. A comfortable book to hold;print good on the eyes. Knowledgable,well qualified author. Very pleased with having this book in my library!