There is no excuse or justification for Mr. Hansard's self-serving, cynical exploitation and misrepresentation of the Tibetan Bon tradition. As has been noted previously he is not a qualified Doctor, nor an authentic practitioner of Tibetan medicine (he has not completed a recognized course of medicine at the Tibetan Institute of Medicine in India). Hansard does not speak or write Tibetan (a curious deficiency when one considers it the esssesntial medium in becoming a fully trained and qualified Physician of Tibetan medicine) while his so-called 'tradition' is an exotic fabrication. There are serious questions surrounding his activities and claims, for more detailed information please visit
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Meanwhile, for the interest of visitors to this forum, including the various duplicitous guises adopted by Mr. Hansard, here are some key points regarding his bizarre claims.
1) Dur-Bon is an [b:b88e2c4085]archaic[/b:b88e2c4085] traditional practice which does not involve medicine or healing whatsoever.
2) There, is amongst the traditional and authentic Tibean Bon tradition no recognition or practise of 'Dur-Bon'
3) Written and spoken Tibetan is required to learn, and achieve a full understanding of, genuine Tibetan medicine, Hansard has neither
4) The so-called 'Tibetan Bon Community', he claims, 'predicted' his birth, is completely unknown to Tibetan Bonpos I have consulted
5) The 'teacher' Hansard claims came from the remote wilds of Amdo would be most unlikely to have learned sufficient English, to tutor a four-year old New Zealand boy in the complex mysteries of Tibetan medicine, given the wild and empty nature of a region, populated mostly by nomads
6) Based upon a reasonable estimation of Hansard's age, this mysterious Tibetan 'teacher' would have been required to obtain travel authorization from the Communist Chinese Regime, during a period when Tibet was sealed off from the outside and world, and religious persecution and cultural destruction was being visited upon Tibetans. This is highly unlikely.
7) The 'tribe' Hansard states his 'teacher' came from, the so-called 'GNam', is completely unknown to Tibetan Bon scholars and does not appear as a clan name on authentic Tibetan Bon texts
8) The name he gives this 'teacher', 'Urgyen' is not a Tibetan-Bon name, it's a Tibetan Buddhist name, closely linked to the Nyingmapa tradition
9) There is no correspondence of "twelve teachings", which you describe, within the traditional and genuine native religion of Tibetan Bon
10) The so-called 'Northern Treasure School' Hansard claims as his 'lineage' is in fact not a school at all, but is based upon texts found in the Northern part of Tibet
11) The name Ürgyen gNam Chuk, does not as hansard states mean 'sky metal', that should be 'namchag'
So many questions, so much manipulation, delusion and falsification that selfishly capitalized upon Tibetan culture, and in doing so appears to have resulted in trauma and abuse for those placed their trust in this individual.