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    The LA is a Tibetan concept referring to a person's vital force or life force that moves through the body in a monthly lunar cycle. It connects a person to the external world and provides protective forces. The LA can also be connected to external sites in nature like mountains or trees, tying a person's life to those places. When the LA leaves the body during illness or weakness, it puts the person at risk unless practices are done to bring it back. According to Tibetan medicine, it is important to avoid harming parts of the body when the LA is present there to avoid shortening life. The document then provides the detailed monthly cycle of the LA's movement through the body.

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    The LA is a Tibetan concept referring to a person's vital force or life force that moves through the body in a monthly lunar cycle. It connects a person to the external world and provides protective forces. The LA can also be connected to external sites in nature like mountains or trees, tying a person's life to those places. When the LA leaves the body during illness or weakness, it puts the person at risk unless practices are done to bring it back. According to Tibetan medicine, it is important to avoid harming parts of the body when the LA is present there to avoid shortening life. The document then provides the detailed monthly cycle of the LA's movement through the body.

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    The LA is a Tibetan concept referring to a person's vital force or life force that moves through the body in a monthly lunar cycle. It connects a person to the external world and provides protective forces. The LA can also be connected to external sites in nature like mountains or trees, tying a person's life to those places. When the LA leaves the body during illness or weakness, it puts the person at risk unless practices are done to bring it back. According to Tibetan medicine, it is important to avoid harming parts of the body when the LA is present there to avoid shortening life. The document then provides the detailed monthly cycle of the LA's movement through the body.

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    The LA is a Tibetan concept referring to a person's vital force or life force that moves through the body in a monthly lunar cycle. It connects a person to the external world and provides protective forces. The LA can also be connected to external sites in nature like mountains or trees, tying a person's life to those places. When the LA leaves the body during illness or weakness, it puts the person at risk unless practices are done to bring it back. According to Tibetan medicine, it is important to avoid harming parts of the body when the LA is present there to avoid shortening life. The document then provides the detailed monthly cycle of the LA's movement through the body.

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    བླ་༌གནས།

    The Cycle of 'LA'


    The LA (bla) is a physical element related to a person's vital force which makes the link with the
    external world. It is luminous and it moves in the body in a lunar monthly cycle. When it is
    unimpaired, it says within the body and includes the protective forces of the individual.
    Although it is attached to the human body, the LA can also have an external substratum to which the
    person's life is thereon tied. It could be a hill, a mountain, a tree, a lake or even stone like a life
    turquoise. It such a case, the individual LA connects with the LhA or local deity. Among other
    reasons, this is why in Tibet men have always maintained a harmonious relationship with their
    environment: since the vital energy is bound to the external LA forces, defiling or destructing their
    abode is tantamount to endangering the individual's life itself.
    When the life forces weaken or when one faints or collapses, the LA can break away from the body
    and roam the external world. It can then also be lured and taken away by damsi (devils) - this is
    considered as a case of possession - or attacked with black magic practises - this is seen as spell
    throwing. In such a case, the person is exhausted, affected by illness, and if appropriate practises are
    not performed to end this situation, it is said one cannot survive more than six months. After death,
    the LA can linger on somewhere - for example at the grave; it cannot incarnate again, but it can visit
    the living.
    According to the Kalachakra Teaching, the movement of LA occurs in the left part of the body in
    men, and in the right part in women. At the first day of the lunar month, the LA is located at the
    soles of the feet, and during the lunar month, it proceeds in the shape of a bright letter throughout
    the body, until it returns to its initial location.
    It is considered that the LA is predominantly found in specific body locations at different periods of
    the day, and it is thus said that: "at dawn the LA dwells in the bladder, at sunrise in the neck, in the
    morning it is at the lips and nape, at noon it is in the chest and ribs, in the afternoon it is in the
    abdomen, in the evening it is in the heart, at sunset in the back, and from nightfall to sunrise in the
    whole of the body".
    According to Tibetan Medicine, it is very important to avoid wounding, bleeding, cauterizing or
    otherwise operating a body part while it is the location of LA, as this could shorten and even destroy
    life. It is therefore recommended to respect tho monthly cycle of LA according to the lunar calendar,
    so as to avoid loss of vital energy even in the course of minor operations.
    This is the cycle of LA during lunar month (according to the Men ngak tchewa ringsel):
    1st: sole of foot*
    2nd: ankles
    3th: (medial side of) thighs
    4th: waistline
    5th: (interior of) mouth
    6th: chest
    7th: back
    8th: palms of hands
    9th: liver
    10th: waistline
    11th: nose
    12th: stomach
    13th: shoulder blades
    14th: blood vessel above thumbs
    15th: whole of body
    16th: neck
    17th: throat
    18th: pit of the stomach
    19th: ankles
    20th: sole of foot**
    21st: big toe
    22nd: left shoulder blade
    23th: liver
    24th: palms of hands
    25th: tongue
    26th: knees
    27th: knees
    28th: sexual organs
    29th: pupils
    30th: whole of body
    * It is the sole of the left foot for the men and the sole of the right foot for the women.** Right foot for men and left
    foot for women. Generally the LA circulates during the waning moon in the side opposite the one of the waxing moon's
    circulation.

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