Hansard, and his websites, did not simply state he was 'trained in[i:6ccbb53d06] 'therapy'[/i:6ccbb53d06], thus Chris's (sorry, 'real-name gone') vacuous claim
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to be qualified in a therapy you do not need to either read or write or speak the language of the place of origin
is rather misleading and conveniently misses the point.
Mr.Hansard's empire was built entirely upon the deliberately created and cynical fiction that he was indeed trained as a so-called 'Master Physician of Tibetan medicine'.
The fact is that he is not trained in Tibetan medicine, has no recognised qualification, as a physician of Tibetan medicine, and did not undergo any formal and [i:6ccbb53d06]bonafide [/i:6ccbb53d06]Tibetan medical course. Bear in mind that during the period Hansard claims, a a child, he was receiving such 'training' in New Zealand, Tibetan medicine was, apart from a handful of academics virtually unknown, the only way to study the subject was to undergo recognized study from the exiled Tibetan Government's Medical Institute, [i:6ccbb53d06]Men Tse Khang[/i:6ccbb53d06], in India. I can assure ths forum that Hansard has not attended, or completed a recognized course of full medical training at that institution. Any 'knowledge' he has about Tibetan medicine is at best superficial and grossly uninformed, the rest is fakery and bluff.
Furthermore, I wonder if Chris (sorry, real name gone) can furnish what evidential sources exist to support his fantasy that so-called 'Dur Bon' is genuine or, that even more ludicrously, it pre-dates the authentic and native Bon tradition of Tibet. I await such evidence, meanwhile perhaps Chris/real name gone will reconsider the following facts!
1) Dur-Bon is a Tibetan term, its roots lie in ancient Tibetan culture and genuine Bon traditions. It is not as claimed a medical or healing practice.
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
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