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JOURNEYS WITH
TIBETAN MEDICINE
H OW T IBETAN MEDICINE CAME TO THE W EST .
T HE S TORY OF THE B ADMAYEV FAMILY .
Martin Saxer
submitted as masters thesis at the
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
Prof. Dr. Michael Oppitz
December 2004
Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................. 1
Transformations and the Tale of an Unbroken Tradition ........................................ 8
How Buddhism and Tibetan medicine came to Buryatia .........................................................8
Adaptation to local conditions ..............................................................................................10
Sultim Badma ......................................................................................................... 14
Early European attitudes towards Tibetan medicine ..............................................................17
Concepts and Methods of Tibetan medicine ......................................................... 19
Three Humors .......................................................................................................................19
Diagnosis ...............................................................................................................................20
Treatment ..............................................................................................................................22
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Badmayev............................................................................ 25
Pyotr's translation of the Gyushi ...........................................................................................27
Institutionalizing education ...................................................................................................30
Tibetan Medicine and the “Great Game” ............................................................... 32
Dorzhiev's mission in St Petersburg ......................................................................................35
The turning point ..................................................................................................................37
Badmayev's opponents...........................................................................................................38
A Buddhist temple in St Petersburg .......................................................................................42
Tibetan Medicine in the Soviet Union .................................................................. 48
Modernist movement in Buryatia...........................................................................................48
Nikolai Nikolayevich Badmayev............................................................................................51
Collectivization and its consequences for Tibetan Medicine ................................................53
A niche in the 1930s ..............................................................................................................55
Wlodzimierz Badmajeff ......................................................................................... 59
From Poland to Switzerland ..................................................................................................62
Translation.............................................................................................................................65
Buryat Revival ........................................................................................................ 69
Computerized pulse diagnosis and the Eastern Medicine Center..........................................71
Buddhist Revival ....................................................................................................................74
From Research to Film ........................................................................................... 77
Visual concepts ......................................................................................................................77
Shooting ................................................................................................................................82
Editing ...................................................................................................................................85
Bibliography .......................................................................................................... 90
Note on transliteration........................................................................................... 97
Acknowledgements................................................................................................ 98
Curriculum Vitae ................................................................................................... 99
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Introduction
“It's two films. Either you make a film about the Badmayevs or you make a
film about Tibetan medicine”. Pandito Khempo Lama Ayusheyev, head of
the Russian Buddhists, was sitting on a small podium and seemed to be in a
bad mood. It was my first day in Buryatia, a Buddhist region in Russia
bordering Mongolia. I had slept very little and still had a severe hangover
from all the welcome vodkas we had drunk the night before. My hosts in
Ulan-Ude, called Dulma and Bato, had organized a car, a driver, a translator
and had freed themselves from all obligations in order to show me around.
And so we had driven to Ivolginskiy Datsan, a monastery about 30 km
outside of Ulan-Ude. I was very excited to get a first glimpse of Buddhism in
Buryatia. Once we had arrived in Ivolginsk, Dulma began asking around for
Pandito Khempo Lama and within 30 minutes she had arranged an audience
for me. I was completely unprepared, but of course I couldn't say no. Shortly
afterwards I found myself sitting on a low and narrow bench in front of this
charismatic middle-aged lama. Ayusheyev – so his name, Pandito Khempo
Lama being his title – had obviously caught a cold and every five minutes he
would leave the room to blow his nose. He listened to me with an expression
alternating between anger and lack of interest or he would ask me very
pointed questions about my film project and intentions. I tried to explain
that I wanted to make a film about how Tibetan medicine had come from
Buryatia to my home country through the Badmayevs, a family of Buryat
Tibetan physicians. I tried to explain my interest in the transformations and
adaptations of Tibetan medicine and that I regarded it as something
contemporary and alive. Ayusheyev continued to show his contempt until I
asked him straight out if he thought it was a bad idea to make such a film.
“Maybe yes”, he said. I was desperate and had the impression that this
important man whom I was wholly unprepared to meet had turned
completely against my project and against me. Finally he asked me where I
came from.
– Switzerland.
– And what language do you speak?
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