Ven. Losang Jinpa (Ching Mai - formerly Rev. Michael Reid Kreuzer), D.Ayur, Ph.D Buddhist Ayurveda, American Buddhist Monk of the Indo-Tibetan-Chinese Tradition of Nalanda Monastic University
Currently based at Ksitigarbha Buddhist Monastery of Medicine Buddha Healing and Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute.
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The faculty at the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute is a community of teacher-scholar-clinicians who appreciate the priority of excellent teaching and theoretical studies (knosis) while understanding the key role of clinical experience (praxis) that comes from listening to 1000+ patients' health stories over several years.
Our faculty is a spiritual association of clinician-educators where cooperation rather than competition is the norm. Where the students and faculty, as allies in learning, are the rule rather than the exception; and where mutual respect and trust are a fundamental part of our daily spiritual observances following the Buddhist-Vedic-Yogic tradition. A deep sense of community pervades the entire organization. We each feel like Dharma brothers and Dharma sisters to each other striving to adhere to the Bodhisattva's Path of healing.
An American Buddhist Monk, Venerable Losang is the Director,
President, and Co-Founder of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute, the
Medicine Buddha Healing Center, and the Ksitigarbha Buddhist Hermitage
(Monastery). A Class of 1998 graduate of Indian Ayurvedic Physician Dr.
Vasant Lad's Ayurvedic Institute (www.Ayurveda.com), Ven. Losang has
served more than 5500 patients in his clinical Ayur-Vedic medicine
practice.
Formerly Rev. Michael Reid Kreuzer, Ven. Losang is now ordained as an American Buddhist monk in the Indian "Nalanda Tradition" represented by the Geluk lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche (www.FPMT.org). He ordained as a shramanera at Nalanda Monastery in the south of France under Venerable Geshe Losang Jamphal, Abbot of Nalanda Monastery.
Co-founder of our Ayurvedic school and one of two resident full
faculty members, Ven. Losang is author of "Medicine Buddha Herbs" and
numerous articles on Buddhism and Ayurveda.
Ven. Losang completed a six-year 1800-hour apprenticeship with Dr.
Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., the world-renowned Ayurvedic Physician
with 38 years experience who founded the Ayurvedic Institute – the
premier Ayurvedic educational institution outside India. Trained by Dr.
Lad as a clinician, pulse reader and teacher, Losang served on the
Ayurvedic Institute’s faculty where he taught herbology.
A graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute, Losang continued advanced clinical study where he observed Dr. Lad healing over 1900 patients in India and the U.S. Dr. Lad said, "Losang is a dedicated, compassionate, highly spiritual person who was put on this planet to heal people."
In 2000, Losang was one of the first Ayurvedic Herbalists ever to be
awarded Diplomate of Ayurveda (D.Ayur) by the American Ayurvedic
Association (AyurvedicAssociation.com). Losang’s 8 years of scholarship
included Chinese Medicine theory and two intensive Tibetan Medicine
study trips to H.H. Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Medicine & Astrological
Institute in the Indian Himalayan Mountains (www.tibetan-medicine.org),
where he studied with Tibetan Dr. Kelsang Dorje.
In 2000, Losang co-founded the non-profit 501(c)3 Medicine Buddha Healing Center and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute to revive the age-old integration of Buddhism with Indo-Tibetan Ayurveda. He now teaches three times weekly in Berkeley at the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and maintains his busy Ayurvedic practice while being a full-time Buddhist Monk.
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