lobsang partsang
how to make tibetan chang

Lobsang Partsang introduces us to the tradition of Losar and shares stories of how Tibetans spend the days leading up and following the new year to clear away obstacles and celebrate.

Following his introduction he show us how to make Chang, a Tibetan warm alcoholic beverage made from rice, which is eaten on Losar morning and show ways in which to adapt the recipe to have different medicinal qualities according to one’s Tibetan medical constitutional type.

Lobsang Partsang is a Tibetan Medicine practitioner and instructor of Mindfulness Training and a student of Traditional Chinese Medicine at University of East West Medicine in Sunnyvale, California. Lobsang completed a rigorous over 20-year of study in Buddhism at Gyudmed Tantric Monastic University in South India, where he received Geshe Ngarampa degree. He is also trained to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and certified by the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School. He has been serving as a Buddhist Chaplain at Santa Clara County Jail for the past seven years teaching mindfulness sessions.

Lobsang studied Tibetan medicine at the International Academy for Tibetan Traditional Medicine and he has been practicing in Kunde Institute's clinic in Daly City. He teaches courses in Buddhism, meditation and the arts of compassion, and travels regularly throughout the United States, Taiwan, India, Russia and Europe.