Chagdor Drolma, a Tibetan medicine major, said the school offers a variety of courses on knowledge regarding the Four Treatises of Tibetan Medicine, as well as other Tibetan medical classic works.

"The school provides a very comfortable learning environment for us and plenty of opportunities to practice," she said.

"More than as a main part of traditional Tibetan culture, Sowa Rigpa, or Tibetan Medicinal Science, is a unique medical science which differs from other medical sciences in the world. It has some special diagnostic and treatment methods with specific efficacy for some complicated and perplexing conditions."