ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the unique course of development of Tibetan medical worldviews in India, which ‘display variety of strategies with regard to attempts at place making’, to indicate the developing status of this displaced rank of population. In the fluid political atmosphere, it has to be recognised that Tibetan medicine too, as a category of knowledge, has been exposed to sets of influences from both the Chinese as well as the British frontier, immediately following Younghusband’s martial mission in 1904. The slow ‘bureaucratisation’ of the Tibetan medical system itself was fallout of concurrent political ideals of ‘public accountability’ that heightened during increased levels of interaction with the Chinese imperial circles, through the cho yon relationship as pointed out earlier. Inhabiting a transitional space, Tibetan society began to get shaped in exile from this state of indecisiveness and tendency to compromise, and absorb opposing ‘normative values’.
