Medicine and Compassion: A Tibetan Lama’s Guidance for Caregivers
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche with David R. Shlim, M.D.
Wisdom Publications, Boston 2004
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Second Annual Medicine and Compassion Retreat
Continuing Medical Education Credits:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Wyoming Medical Center and Shambhala Mountain Center. Wyoming Medical Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Wyoming Medical Center designates this education activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Medicine and Compassion is the first book to both raise and answer the question as to whether caregivers can train to expand their capacity for compassion....
Join David R Shlim MD for the weekend of November 5th to 7th 2010 at Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado.
This is the only Medicine and Compassion retreat being offered in the world this year. Based on the book by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and David R Shlim, the retreat will combine slide shows, discussions, meditation sessions and training in meditation. We will explore the insights of science and how they connect with Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The goal will be to discover the ways in which one’s capacity for compassion can be increased, made more stable, more vast, and more effortless. You will be able to talk to others about compassion, and encourage them in a more meaningful way, and you will be able to connect with your patients with loving kindness.
The retreat this year has been approved for 10 hours of Category I physician continuing medical education credits. The Shambhala Mountain Center is in the foothills of the rocky mountains, about an hour and half west of Fort Collins, Colorado. The remote, natural environment helps relax one’s mind just by arriving there. The largest Buddhist stupa in North America sits on the land, creating a profound sacred feeling. Accommodations are warm and comfortable, the teaching hall is beautifully decorated, and the dining hall serves delicious, healthy food.
David Shlim spent fifteen years in Kathmandu, Nepal running the world’s busiest destination travel medicine clinic. During that time, he offered free medical care to an extended Tibetan Buddhist monastic community, and became close friends with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Dr. Shlim found that the Buddhist teachings he was receiving automatically allowed him to be more of the doctor he had wanted to be: kind, attentive, able to think clearly, and to more easily meet his patient’s needs. His experience in Nepal led him to ask Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche to teach two courses on Medicine and Compassion, which led to the publication of the book Medicine and Compassion: A Tibetan Lama’s Guidance for Caregivers.
The program is aimed at health care professionals, but is open to anyone who is interested in compassion.
To get more information about the course, and to register, visit http://www.shambhalamountain.org/programs/1386
