Inner Pharmacy: A Path to Healing

from Buddhist Studies Footnotes · host Frances Garrett

An interview by Sumeet Kumar with Buddhist monk Adesh on the role of mindfulness in healing. Bhante Adesh shares insights on the role of a monk in Buddhist spiritual care, on the differences between healing practices in Buddhism and biomedicine, and on his work with people experiencing advanced life-limiting illnesses. He also talks about the importance of deeply listening to others as the first step in working as a healer, and on the role of mindfulness in healing. Sumeet Kumar is an MA student at the University of Toronto. The Footnotes series is produced at the University of Toronto, in Canada.

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