International appointment with doctors, therapists and educators
towards a new non-violent culture for safer health

Peace Times 14

by Ishtar D.- Adler

The Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation’s 4th International Congress on Alternative Medicines and Non-Formal Education «How to create better living for 2001: Peace environment and Peace education through non violence towards a culture of peace» will be open with a special dinner offered for Lama Gangchen’s long life and to introduce the congress. Special guests will include members of the Nepal Government, Ambassadors and representatives of the United Nations, Unesco, Unicef and the World Health Organisation.

The three day event will be held at the Himalayan Healing Centre from the 11th to the 13th of February, under two headings: one day on medicine and the other on education. The medical section will focus upon promoting and supporting Himalayan medical and healing methods, as well as an exchange between Eastern and Western medical systems for spreading the valuable knowledge of natural medicines and renew global efforts towards a peace culture and a more sustainable and healthy inner and outer environment.

Rich in natural resources, the Himalayas have for centuries offered the gentle and healing cures of nature to its inhabitants. The passing on of this valuable knowledge, little known to the rest of the world, will hopefully continue to inspire people into revitalising these systems and therapeutic methods and therefore further the development of this form of non-violent medicine.

The presiding congress panel which will bring together health care providers with the medical world, as well as prominent figures in the field of education, will include T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen, founder of the LGWPF; Sir Anton Jayasuriya, founder and chairman of Medicina Alternativa and the Open International University for Complementary Medicines, Sri Lanka; representatives from the B.P. Koirala Memorial Foundation; Prof. P.R. Trivedi, chairman of the Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment; the Global Open University, Holland, Italy and India; the Nepal Buddhist Society and Welfare Associations; Dr Charles Mercieca, President, and Dr Surya Nath Prasad, International President, both of the International Association of Educators for World Peace; Dambar Bir Thapa, president of the Nepal Institute for UN & Unesco; as well as numerous prominent doctors, therapists, healers, educators and representatives from worldwide organisations.