Gawu

01-0223Tibetan MedicineTraditional MedicineTibetBatch 1 (2007)

Lineage & School of Heritage

From childhood he studied Tibetan medicine. He studied under the Tibetan medical expert Master Qinrao Luobu, intensively reading the classic works of Tibetan medicine, and studied and researched the compounding technique of Renqing Changjue.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Tibetan ethnicity, born in 1950 in Nangqian, Qinghai. A national representative bearer of Tibetan Medicine (the compounding technique of Renqing Changjue in Tibetan medicine), a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; associate chief physician of Tibetan medicine at the Tibetan Medical College of Tibet. Renqing Changjue is the treasure among treasures of traditional Tibetan medicinals and has very extensive clinical applications. Gawu has accumulated rich experience through long-term medical practice and has mastered and applied the compounding technique of Renqing Changjue.

Honors & Recognition

Starting from the formulation and preparation process, he carried out systematic protection research on Renqing Changjue, and attached great importance to the protection of wild resources and their environments, especially that of endangered plant-based Tibetan medicinals. Gawu has participated in academic conferences on Tibetan medicine on many occasions. He published papers such as Heiyao Zuozhu Zhajue de Chuci Qifa Yu Linchuang Liaoxiao (Initial Insights into the Black Medicine Zuozhu Zhajue and Its Clinical Efficacy), and received the title of Advanced Worker in Health and Civilization of the Tibet Autonomous Region. His representative work Zangyao Jingjing Bencao (The Crystal Mirror Materia Medica of Tibetan Medicine) was awarded the second prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

References & Archival Sources

Gawu · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Tibetan Medicine
Item code: Ⅸ-9
Category: Traditional Medicine
Region: Tibet
Born: 1950.10
Batch: Batch 1 (2007)

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