Patron and Trustee

Professor Lama Chimpa, a Mongolian by birth and now an Indian National, received his basic education at Hoshion Sume and Togatu Sume monasteries. After further education at Young Ho Kung Monastery, Beijing, China, he completed his higher monastic education at Drepung and Kumbum monasteries, in Tibet, and was awarded the Rabjampa Degree (equivalent to Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy) at Kumbum. He then came to India, in 1951, where he assisted Dr. George N. Roerich in compiling a Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary, in Kalimpong. Thereafter, he taught and worked for nine years at the International Academy of Indian Culture in Nagpur and Delhi (1952-1961). He also taught at the Department of Buddhist Studies, Delhi University. He assisted Dr. Raghuvira and Dr. Lokesh Chandra in compiling the Mongolian-Sanskrit dictionary. From 1962 onwards, he taught Tibetan language and literature at Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan as the Head of the Department from where he retired in 1993 and since then has been a resident of Kalimpong. Lama Chimpa has various books and publications on Tibetan Studies to his credit, and is Founder - Patron and Trustee of International Trust of Traditional Medicine.  

Founder - Trustee

Barbara Gerke, came to India from Germany in 1988. She went to Dharamsala and studied the Tibetan language and Tibetan medicine with Dr. Barry Clark and later with Ven. Dr. Trogawa Rinpoche at the Chakpori Medical Institute in Darjeeling. She pursued her Tibetan studies at Visva Bharati and North Bengal University from where she obtained a diploma and degree in Tibetan Language and Literature. Since 1995, she has been mainly residing in Kalimpong where she steered the foundation of the International Trust for Traditional Medicine (ITTM). Presently, She is co-ordinating ITTM research projects while pursuing her personal research on Tibetan medical literature. She is also the Editor of AyurVijnana.

Trustee

Abul Hasan, Indian; appointed Trustee vice the late Asanga Machwe (+ 2.7.1996); retired from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, as Deputy Educational Advisor; Now, Director, Afro-Asian Book Council, Delhi. A prolific writer and Educational Administrator and a Specialist in Book Promotion, he belongs to the illustrious Sharifi family of Delhi, the founders of Unani (Greek) medicine in India.