Joseph Chinnock

Joseph Chinnock, Founder of Tibetan Formulas This review is from: Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry: The Diamond Healing (Paperback) True story of psychiatric nurse, Terry Clifford,who left her job working in a NYC psychiatric hospital to travel to Tibet, Nepal and Northern India to research traditional Tibetan medical methods of working with mental illness. The traditional Tibetan doctors really opened up due to Ms. Clifford's sincerity, knowledge of physchiatric illness, and amiable personality. They translated esoteric Tibetan medical concepts, related expereinces from their medical practices and even gave her traditional Tibetan herbal formulas for pyschiatric illnesses.

Interview with Joseph Chinnock on Travelling in Nepal When did you first get interested in Nepal? I travelled to Nepal the summer after my college freshman year intending to trek to Everest Base Camp the long route. I contracted dysentery and altitude sickness on the trek and ended up losing fifty pounds (this was when I weighed 155) and literally crawling back to Kathmandu. I took a meditation class at Kopan Monastery and they asked me to stay the two weeks until my flight left and recuperate. That was my introduction to Nepal and Buddhism as well as the spectacular scenery of the Himalayas and the kindness of the Nepali people.

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November 1995 - Present | Nepal

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