On the top of Yaowang Mountain opposite the Potala Mountain is erected the "Medicine for All Monastery" (Bureau of Tibetan Traditional Medicine, Astronomy and Calendar), called Moinchekang in Tibetan language. Under the order of the 5th Dalai Lama, Qoipa Chinro Norbu founded another Moinchekang near the western door of Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa in the 17th century. It is an institution combining Tibetan medicine, medical treatment, astronomy and calendar study and teaching. In the late 19th century, Moinchekang actually became a school also providing outpatient services and cultivating Tibetan medicine and astronomy talents (1956)
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