Formalisation, difficulty in earning a living as well as the unavailability of herbs due to a combination of factors could lead to erasure, say practitioners.
KATHMANDU In the isolated kingdom of Lo Manthang, tucked away in Nepal’s Himalayas, ancient structures stand tall on arid lands that only allowed tourists in from the late 1990s. Amid a small settlement of Loba Buddhists whose children have now migrated out, 65-year-old Gyatso Bista is trying preserve the ancient Tibetan medicinal system of […]