Twelfth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

I am looking for the Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge-IMK and, in the Rakhain Indigenous community, and in doing so, I utilize a bioprospecting exercise. I found that Buddhist ethics, virtues, and other practices are a rich source of health and wellbeing. However, the international rules and regulations are a dearth of incorporating this knowledge into policies. We consider some practices that we, the research team have implied up and found a vital way of being healthy and sound. When I was in the field, the Healers (bante, priests) informed us that Buddhist ethics, virtue guide their community, and Wheel’s teaching and all these healings are a process of ‘eliminating the sufferings; (diseases). So they people first do spiritual, yogic activities in being healthy, if yet, they become sick, that means, the person did not follow the virtues and ethics properly. Then, only the Simanta (healers allow him some plant-based medicine after some yoga and Siddha practice, or sometimes along with ). Bioprospecting itself a contradictory concept, in legacy –philosophically and practically, carries the New Science Ethics that obsolete, seceded the traditional society and knowledge.