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Tony Lu, MD Leads QiGong Tour to Beijing
In October, 2003, Tony Lu, MD led a group of 12 travelers to the Beijing International Medical QiGong Institute to study QiGong and learn about the culture of China. The group stayed primarily at the Institute, where we were served the best Chinese meals this writer has ever eaten. We did QiGong practice every day – generally before breakfast, in locations especially chosen for their strong energy-giving potential. We traveled by overnight sleeper train to the Henan Province, where we visited the Shaolin Temple, home of the famed fighting monks of Shaolin and witnessed several exhibitions of their artistry, both by the monks and by younger students. We had a hovercraft ride on the recently flooded Yellow River, and had the opportunity to see (and buy) beautiful jewelry, carvings and clothing.
We returned to Beijing by air, and visited the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace. We were given several lectures on various aspects of Chinese medicine, as well as bedside practice in QiGong healing and what the Chinese call "bone-setting" – a combination of physical therapy and osteopathic manipulation.
On the very last day, we had the extraordinary experience, based on Master Wan's intuition that we should make an unplanned visit to a Temple (Xi Shan Ba Da Chu) near the Institute which houses a relic of the Buddha. Normally this relic is closed away from public view, and only open to the public once or twice a year. When we arrived, we found out that the High Llama of Tibet and his entourage were visiting, and we were allowed in to the pagoda which housed the reliquary (or stupa), to see one of four extant teeth of the Buddha.
We plan to return to the Institute, the first two weeks of September 2004. We will do some medical mission work with Master Wan and his team of doctors in Inner Mongolia (where it is too cold to travel in October), as well as some sight-seeing, and then return to the Institute in Beijing for more Qigong, sightseeing, lectures, and bedside instruction.
Please contact Tony Lu, MD eastmed@aol.com or Martha Grout, MD drmarthagrout@qwest.net for further details.
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