Medicinal Plant Book Talk with Dawn A. Murray, PhD

Monpa Medicinal Plants, Indigenous Knowledge from a Himalayan Healer by Dawn A. Murray, PhD, is a beautiful book about the Monpas, the Indigenous people of Bhutan. The book illuminates the Himalayan medicinal plants the Monpas use for healing, sharing generational knowledge about their ecosystem. With colorful and delicate botanical watercolors and photographs of the people and the place, you get a sense of the magic of the culture and the sacred mountains in Bhutan. The Monpas have intimate relationships with the plants and the land and cultural practices that we hope inspire you to learn more about Indigenous wisdom, nature, and living in harmony with nature and each other.

Dawn A. Murray, PhD is a professor at Antioch University and teaches environmental studies courses to graduate and undergraduate students. She has been collaborating with the Tribal Trust Foundation as a board member and the Director of International Education & Research for over ten years. This book project was sponsored by the Tribal Trust Foundation and the Tarayana Foundation. Dawn leads trips to Bhutan and lived there for six months teaching ecology.