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The
Jeff Bowe situation
Update: 4/7/08: We
have made every attempt to contact Mr Bowe but no response has been
forthcoming. Last weekend it was discovered that Mr Bowe had set up yet
another blog this time purporting to be the work of our web consultant;
Mr Chris Farmer.
As we are unable to contact Mr Bowe directly our only option is to demonstrate publicly the true facts about Mr Bowe.
A recent posting by Mr Bowe on one of his numerous blogs stated that:-
"This is what Tibetan Way claim:
"The
primary botanical in Woman’s Choice is Dong Quai (Angelica sinensis),
used in traditional Tibetan medicine for thousands of years."
.........
I
approached the Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute of HH the Dalai
Lama, who are the premier and authoritive source of knowledge and
training in Tibetan medicine. I provided them with the recognised
herbal description, botanical name and images of Dong Quai and enquired
if this herb was featured in traditional Tibetan medicine. The response
was clear, their Director stated that, "this herb is not commonly used in traditional Tibetan Medicine"."
That simply isn't true; what the office of the Dalai Lama actually says is:-
"Some
medicinal plants of the Tibetan Plateau, which are widely used in
allopathic, homeopathic, Tibetan and Chinese medicines are; .........
Angelica sinensis,"
The Government of Tibet in exile
website (site is maintained and updated by The Office of Tibet, the
official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London): http://www.tibet.com/ECO/Green97/biodiversity.html
A statement that is repeated at the website of Tibet Environmental Watch - http://www.tew.org/wildlife/wildlife.biodiversity.html
If you visit http://www2.bremen.de/info/nepal/Gallery-3/Medical/8-26/Medic26-8.htm
you will see an image of 9 medicinal herbs. Clicking on the white herb
fourth from left in the top row will take you to a description of
Angelica including the Tibetan name for this plant. The image is taken
from a Tibetan medical Thangka based on original 17th Century paintings.
We
realised some weeks ago that Mr Bowe has serious issues with separating
fact from fiction and with the truth but to involve the name of the
Dalai Lama in his falsehoods really is beneath contempt.
It
would appear that Mr Bowe did not contact the Tibetan Medical and
Astrology Institute of HH the Dalai Lama and simply made up a story to
support his crusades against anyone who has any knowledge of Tibet.
It
is strange that a man who claims to have been studying and researching
into Tibet for some 20 years should be incapable of putting the terms
"angelica sinensis Tibet" into a search engine. Had Mr Bowe bothered to
do that he would have found the pages referred to above.
The
only possible conclusions are that Mr Bowe is lying or incompetent or
both. In any event Mr Bowe has demonstrated yet again that he knows
nothing of Tibet, it's culture or language and that none of his
statements can be relied upon.
We really do not understand why
Mr Bowe persists in his attacks on us but we take comfort from the fact
that Mr Bowe's recent astonishing attacks on the Dalai Lama, the
Tibetan government, the Tibet Society, etc, etc means that we are in
good company.
Update: 25/06/08: Yet
again Bowe has been posting garbage on his blogs and re-editing them to
retain comments that support his nonsense and remove those which
disagree with his ludicrous ravings.
He asks questions but then
makes it impossible for people to post a reply. As a result of this
Stalinist behaviour we have now written a letter to him. We have been
able to discover a number of email addresses that appear to belong to
Bowe but to ensure that he receives our comments we have also posted it
here as an open letter.
We would
hope that Bowe accepts the letter and leaves us in peace to develop
this site and continue to contribute funds to charities that support
the Tibetan cause. If Bowe continues to harass us we can only take that
as an indication that whatever Bowe may claim; the reality is that heis
working against the best interests of the Tibetan people.
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