Title: Dr. Liu Lihong and Dr. Tang Nong
- Classical Chinese Medicine in Modern China
- Pearls of Wisdom from the Shanghan Lun
Date: May 10, 2008 9:30 – 5:30
Location: NCNM Ross Island Campus; Portland, OR, Great Hall
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Overview: This 2-part,1-day seminar will feature the combined genius of the two founders of China's first official research institute for the clinical application of classical Chinese medicine. Professor Tang, chair of the Institute at Guangxi College of TCM, is the charismatic leader who made deadlines as China's youngest hospital director. Dr. Liu, co-chair of the Institute and its medical director, is the author of the highly influential "Sikao Zhongyi" ("Contemplating Chinese Medicine"), the best-selling plea for a renaissance of classical Chinese medicine that has reached more readers in China than any other modern Chinese medicine publication during the last century. Both are veterans of the Chinese medicine machine in China, who have a clear view of the limitations as well as the potential of TCM in our time. Together,
they will give an inspiring summary about clinical cases, their insights into the "Shanghan lun", and why they think that a return to classical principles produces superior results in clinical practice.
About the speaker:
Liu Lihong studied Chinese medicine at Guangxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and became one of the earliest recipients of a doctoral degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine when the P.R.C. first established Ph.D. programs in this discipline. He wrote his dissertation on chrono-medical considerations in the Shanghan lun (Treatise on Disorders Caused by Cold) under the mentorship of the late Shanghan expert Chen Yiren.
Outside the institutional TCM setting, he sought out instruction from the late Chinese medicine cosmology scholar Li Yangbo, the Daoist medicine expert Wang Qingyu, the Shanghan physician Zeng Rongxiu, the Yijing master Zeng Yisheng, the emergency medicine specialist Li Ke, and a host of other local physicians whose practice is still characterized by the highly traditional and locale-specific flavor of classical Chinese medicine. As part of his personal commitment to his Buddhist path and the people of Tibet, Dr. Liu established a Chinese medicine hospital in Seda (Tibetan part of Western Sichuan), and served as personal physician to the late Rimpoche Kenpu Jikhpun, head of the Ningma sect of Tibetan Buddhism (regarded by the Tibetans as one of the reincarnations of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom).
Today, he serves as a senior professor at Guangxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and has emerged as one of China’s foremost experts on the Shanghan lun, the 1,850 year old classic that first established a coherent medical methodology based on cosmological principles, as well as the Yijing (Book of Change). He is also at the forefront of a Chinese renaissance movement that aims at reviving the depth and the core values of Classical Chinese Medicine. In his capacity as a scholar, he has recently published the influential books, Sikao zhongyi (Contemplating Chinese Medicine, 2003) and Kaiqi zhongyi zhi men (Opening the Door to Chinese Medicine, 2004). In addition, his work on classical Chinese medicine has recently been featured in a documentary by the Guangxi Province TV Station. He lives with his wife and daughter in Nanning, Guangxi Province, and each summer, teaches foreign students about the intricacies of Classical Chinese Medicine during the Heron Institute’s annual Sacred Mountain Retreat Program.