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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.

Full Faculty:

Ven. Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, Ph.D, Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.)

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.

Adjunct Faculty:

Rev. Dr. Partap Chauhan, B.A.M.S., Ayurvedic Physician from India, Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.)

Dr. Chauhan is a regular adjunct faculty member teaching Ayurvedic Rasa Shastra (metallic, mineral and gem herbal compounds), Ayurvedic Herbal Wine and Tincture Making and Advanced Herbology at the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute. Dr. Chauhan teaches for the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute via both in-person in-classroom lectures and via distance learning multimedia audio and video courses. Dr. Chauhan hosts our Institute’s India Study-Abroad Program in his busy clinic and school in the countryside outside of Delhi.

Dr. Chauhan, Director of Jiva Ayurveda Center for Incurable Diseases (www.Ayurvedic.org), has an extensive background in Vedic philosophy and spirituality and is an accomplished Vaidya (Ayurvedic Doctor) practicing Ayurveda in its original form. In 1980 he joined the Delhi University’s Ayurvedic College, graduating second in his class.

Formal education did not suffice to quench his deep thirst for knowledge so he searched for a guru to unlock the secrets of Ayurveda. His search culminated in 1983 when he met with the late Shri Nanak Chand Sharma, an expert in Rasa Shastra (alchemy) and the preparation of Ayurvedic medicines. Dr Chauhan undertook five years of grueling full time study under Vaidya Sharma’s active guidance, and mastered the intricacies of herbal medicines and their preparation. In 1991, while still studying under the tutelage of Vaidya Sharma, he started his own practice south of Delhi. He also established the Jiva Pharmacy to create purely Ayurvedic medicines. In these years, Dr Chauhan has toured and lectured in many countries worldwide helping chronic patients.

Rev. Dr. Robert Chu (Sifu Chu Sai-Lei), Master Herbalist (M.H.)

Robert Chu (Chu Sau Lei, Zhu Shouli) has been practicing the martial and Chinese healing arts since childhood. Robert is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, specializing in the Master Tung Acupuncture and Optimal Acupuncture methods in which he effectively treats pain, industrial injuries, sports injuries, and neuro-musculo-skeletal disorders. Dr. Chu also treats a wide variety of internal diseases including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, psoriasis, thyroid disorders, gynecological disorders and side-effects from cancer treatments. He is appointed by the Industrial Medical Council as a Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME).

Dr. Chu began practicing the martial arts in the early 1970s. He specializes in combat application and health aspects with a focus on the Yip Man Wing Chun Kuen system as taught by Hawkins Cheung and the Yuen Kay-San and Gulao Wing Chun Kuen systems as taught by Kwan Jong-Yuen. He is the co-author of Complete Wing Chun, (Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc, 1998) and has written many articles for Inside Kung Fu, Martial Arts Legends, Inside Martial Arts, Martial Arts Combat Sports and other publications, in addition to his regular monthly column, Wandering Knight, which appears in Martial Arts Combat Sports magazine. He teaches privately in the Pasadena, California area.

Dr. Chu was formerly affiliated with the St. Vincent Medical Center , as the first fulltime Acupuncturist on staff and treated cancer patients with Acupuncture, Herbal Therapy, Qigong and Tai Chi. Dr. Chu is a former faculty member of Samra University of Oriental Medicine in Los Angeles, where he taught acupuncture. He has also taught Tai Chi and Qigong at Loyola Law School . Dr. Chu volunteers at Pasadena's Wellness Community , where he does monthly lectures for cancer patients and a weekly lifestyle/nutrition and Qi Gong class. He is occasionally featured as a speaker for the American Cancer Society . In July of 2004, Dr. Chu was selected as the Acupuncturist to Olympic athletes at the Olympic Trials held in Sacramento, CA.

Dr. Chu also lectures nationally and internationally on Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine to provide continuing education to MD's and Acupuncturists. In 2003, he founded the International Association of Optimal Acupuncture and Clinical Chinese Medicine to spread his effective clinical system. He also serves as President of the ITARA - International Tung's Acupuncture Research Association, which he founded in 2005, to preserve, standardize, educate, and research new applications of the Tung family system of Acupuncture with integrity, open sharing, and a goal to help end suffering in fellow beings. He has been decorated as an honorary member of the Finnish Traditional Chinese Medicine Society of Acupuncture and Herbs and a therapist member of the National Register of Acupuncture Therapists in Finland. Dr. Chu is also listed as a Master Practitioner of Oriental Bodywork Therapy and Master Practitioner of Tui-Na Manipulations, awarded by the International Association of Tui-Na Therapies in London, England. He has lectured at Emperor's College of TCM , CSOMA , and other functions as a dynamic and entertaining speaker.

In 2004, Robert was awarded a Ph.D. in Buddhist Ayurveda from the non-profit college Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute in Berkeley, California.

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Teaching Clinically In-Person to Classroom-Based Student and Distance Learners with Streamable MP3-iPod Audio and HDTV Video