China News Agency, Beijing, March 3. Title: Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Mingji Tsom: Strengthening International Academic Exchanges of Tibetan Medicine
China News Agency reporter Zhao Lang
"Tibetan medicine is facing multiple challenges and opportunities in the international development." Recently, Mingji Tsomo, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and associate professor of Tibet University of Tibetan Medicine, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency that he will build Tibet University of Tibetan Medicine into a world-class university of Tibetan medicine. , it is necessary to develop awareness of not waiting for others at times, and to strengthen international academic exchanges and personnel training of Tibetan medicine at the moment.
The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is about to be held, and Mingji Tsom has prepared a proposal on strengthening international academic exchanges and personnel training of Tibetan medicine.
This proposal is a summary of her study abroad experience, research and the current development status of Tibetan medicine in China.
At the age of 12, Mingji Tsom was admitted to Tibet Tibetan Medical School (Technical Secondary School), the predecessor of Tibet Tibetan Medical College.
After graduating, she worked in Nierong County People's Hospital in northern Tibet. At that time, she went to the countryside to make rounds on horseback. "Riding for 8 hours a day, I was so tired that I couldn't squat down to go to the toilet."
In 1999, she went to a remote township in Qiongjie County, Shannan for research. "I have been at the grassroots level. Seeing the backwardness of the village had a great psychological impact on me. I wanted to change the current situation of local public health at the grassroots level. This is also my responsibility. "
Later, he obtained junior college, undergraduate, and master degrees in Tibetan medicine at his alma mater and stayed at the school to teach. Mingji Tsom realized that in order to show the elegance of Chinese Tibetan medicine for thousands of years in modern society, "studying abroad is also to find research methods." Supported by the unit In 2008, she went to study in the UK and obtained a master's degree in public health. Later, she obtained a doctorate in medical anthropology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and successively obtained postdoctoral degrees in medical anthropology from Oxford University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Studying abroad for 11 years, research topics are related to Tibetan medicine.
During his study abroad, Mingji Tsom hosted 8 academic conferences on Tibetan medicine, which changed the situation that large international Tibetan medicine conferences were basically hosted by Westerners.
She has successively popularized Tibetan medicine for universities in nearly 20 countries in the form of lectures and seminars. She has published 10 SCI papers, 6 SSCI papers and other academic journal papers, and participated in the writing and writing of 6 overseas publishing houses. edit.
In 2017, Mingji Tsom gave up employment opportunities in prestigious schools and returned to China, returning to his alma mater with a sense of mission to the country and society.
In the same year, as a core member, she participated in the United Nations World Heritage application for "Tibetan Medicinal Bathing Method - Knowledge and Practice of Chinese Tibetans on Life, Health and Disease Prevention and Control".
Not only that, in order to serve the international development of Tibetan medicine, she is also researching and writing two English-language books, "On the Establishment of a Public Health System Compliant with Tibetan Social and Cultural Factors" and "Special Education in the Inheritance of Tibetan Medicine".
Since its establishment in 1989, Tibet University of Tibetan Medicine has continuously provided Tibetan medicine talents to the society.
As a faculty member with many years of experience in the school, she believes that modern education and the development of traditional Tibetan medicine complement each other, such as the integration of modern education methods such as research methods and statistics in teaching.
In addition, county-level people’s hospitals in Tibet all have Tibetan medicine departments, and township health centers can also provide some basic Tibetan medical services. Tibetan medicine is still widely popular among grassroots people.
Mingji Tsom also bluntly stated that the development of Tibetan medicine in Tibet still has certain limitations.
She hopes to strengthen the training of Tibetan medicine talents, establish a more complete Tibetan medicine database system, establish an overseas student college, support and encourage international seminars on Tibetan medicine at different levels, and enhance and expand the discourse power and influence of Chinese Tibetan medicine in the international community .
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