For twelve hundred years, the Tibetan science of healing has asked a different question than Western medicine. Not "what disease do you have?" — but "which of the three humours — Lung, Tripa, Beken — has drifted from balance, and how do we invite it home?" སྡུག་བསྔལ་བ་མེད་པ་གོ་འཕང་ཡིན། · The absence of suffering is the ground of healing. — Four Tantras
Sowa Rigpa is a 1,200-year-old system, codified in the twelfth century in the Four Tantras (rGyud bZhi). We have distilled it into four gentle starting points — none of them prescriptive, all of them in conversation with your own body.
Twenty questions, six minutes. Discover which of the three humours — Lung (wind), Tripa (bile), Beken (phlegm) — most describes your nature, and which of the seven classical types (single, dual, or balanced) is yours. Free.
Learn how a real amchi — a Tibetan-medicine physician — reads the pulse, urine, and pattern — and find a certified practitioner near you. We do not diagnose; we point you toward the people who can.
A small, curated shelf of classical Tibetan formulas and single-herb teas — Agar 35, Byu dmar 25, Padma Basic — chosen for newcomers, sourced from vetted brand partners. Not prescriptions; gentle daily companions.
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Sowa Rigpa begins with your unique humour — the same symptom in two people calls for two different responses. A cold in a Lung type is not a cold in a Beken type.
The Four Tantras place food and conduct before medicine and therapy. The highest physician is the one who keeps you well through diet, season, and sleep long before disease arrives.
Health is not the absence of symptoms. It is the moving equilibrium of Lung, Tripa, and Beken — the three humours — rising and settling in their proper seats.
The Four Tantras teach that the three humours arise from three mental poisons: attachment (Lung), aversion (Tripa), and confusion (Beken). Healing the mind is medicine reaching its own root.
Stillpoint Sowa Rigpa is educational. We do not diagnose, treat, cure, or prescribe. For any health concern please consult a licensed healthcare practitioner. Statements on this site have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.