Religious Diversity News - The Pluralism Project

A United States nurse is organizing training session in traditional Buddhist medical practices for Mongolian doctors.

Sas Carey, a nurse from Middlebury, Vermont, made her first visit to [Mongolia] in the mid-1990’s. While in Ulaanbaatur, she persuaded Dr. Boldsaikhan, who she met at the Institute of Traditional Medicine, to take her on as a disciple.

“Western medicine targets the symptom and assumes the system will heal,” she told the Addison County Independent. “(Mongolians) balance the system, then they believe that the piece will heal. If we can come at it from both sides — how beautiful — then you really heal.”