Wang Chaoqun

Wang Chaoqun

Dr. Wang Chaoqun was born in 1948 in Myanmar and his ancestral home is Fujian, China. Since childhood, he was influenced and taught by his grandfather who came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine. He should not only aspire to help the world, but also combine traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine, and take the advantages of both to provide better treatment for patients.

Personal experience

Going to Canada for medical courses

in the early 1970s, Dr. Wang Chaoqun, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, came to Canada to study medical courses, including family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, oncology and psychology. After getting his doctor's degree, Wang Chaoqun devoted himself to his grandfather's promise of integrating traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine. He used traditional Chinese and Western medicine and acupuncture in hospitals and clinics every day to treat patients. He gradually gained social recognition because of its remarkable curative effect. Seeing that many patients recovered because of proper treatment, Wang Chaoqun knew it was time to promote acupuncture and moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine, so he made plans To cultivate new blood, University is the best hotbed for cultivating talents.

Founded the first university in Canada to offer medical acupuncture courses

In 1991, Dr. Wang Chaoqun successfully founded the discipline of medical acupuncture and moxibustion at the University of Alberta, becoming the first university in Canada to offer medical acupuncture and moxibustion courses. Wang Chaoqun not only teaches students traditional Chinese medicine, but also teaches students Chinese culture, qigong, calligraphy, philosophy and so on. Wang Chaoqun said, "acupuncture and Qigong are the greatest contribution of China to mankind, the quintessence of culture, and so on It must be passed on from generation to generation and carried forward. At alberta university, he has more than 500 students, 80% of whom are white. If you take into account the number of students he has taught in Canada, the total number is no less than 2000. To this end, he wrote more than 10 Monographs in English. "the process of sharing culture with others is the process of spreading culture. Chinese medicine is not afraid to share with others. It is precisely because of sharing that Chinese medicine has developed rapidly overseas in recent years. " "But at the same time of sharing, we can't abandon our own advantages." Wang Chaoqun pointed out that the root and base of traditional Chinese medicine is still in China. He has also returned to China many times to study and exchange, one of which worries him very much: many traditional Chinese medicine hospitals are more like western hospitals, which rely more on machines and instruments for diagnosis than our traditional "look, smell, ask and cut" and "find that many young people's clothes and thoughts are similar to those of white children here. But westernization is not entirely good. First of all, Chinese people should learn their own culture well and inherit our fine traditions. " after completing the medical acupuncture course, the students obtained the internationally recognized qualification. "Before that, the road was very hard," Wang Chaoqun said in an interview. After more than ten years from the beginning of preparation to the formal establishment of the course, he experienced many setbacks. However, Dr. Wang Chaoqun said, "I never gave up, because I know that spring flowers can't bloom in winter." my patience ended in the end With satisfactory results, Dr. Wang Chaoqun said with a smile, and said that he planned to upgrade the medical acupuncture subject, which belongs to the undergraduate course, to a master's degree.

He has many duties

Dr. Wang Chaoqun is a family doctor, an expert in geriatrics, and a professor of traditional Chinese medicine. He is an associate professor of clinical experiments and a professor of rehabilitation medicine in the Department of medicine and family medicine, School of medicine, Asian provincial university. In addition, Dr. Wang is also the president of the Canadian Medical Acupuncture Association, the acupuncture standard consultant of the Ministry of health of Canada, and the president of the world natural medicine foundation He is the consultant of traditional Chinese medicine of World Health Organization, associate professor of clinical experiment of New York University School of Dentistry, and President of World Buddhist Association. His main interest is to advocate the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, the integration of eastern traditional Chinese medicine and Western biochemical drugs complement each other, with the patient's own health and interests as the main premise of medical treatment. Dr. Wang also advocates the spiritual interaction between doctors and patients, teaching the public to practice the way of health and recuperation with a natural and rational heart.

Get honor

Dr. Wang Chaoqun's contribution to medicine has been recognized by Canada and the world. He was awarded the academic diplomatique De La Paix award in 1986, the Alberta medal in 2002, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee medal in 2003, the best medical profession of the century award in 2005, and Canada's highest honorary Lifetime Achievement Award at the beginning of this year The medal.

Personal achievement

Wang Chaoqun established the International Buddhist Center independently. He used his own money to give medicine, clothes and food, and to save the poor. He never claimed his identity. He often modestly called himself an ordinary Buddhist. He was enthusiastic about giving alms, which inspired many Westerners, and led people of all nationalities to convert to Buddhism, turning violence into peace. Wang Chaoqun not only made great efforts to give alms, but also set an example in painting and cleaning the hall of his "Buddhist Center", which moved believers to take part in the work one after another. Their church is a self-help Dojo, with no mages, no rituals, no esoteric scriptures, not even a lot of Buddhist scriptures and publications, and no secular temples asking for autographs. However, people from all ethnic groups flocked to take part in all the social charity work of the society. Everyone came to listen to Dr. Wang's Buddhist dharma. Although he said that "the Dharma is based on giving mercy first", he did not say that he only knew karma, nor did he say anything profound about Zen, but everyone liked to listen to and participate in Buddhist charity work. Even though the scale is very small, it only benefits a few families. Under the call of Buddha's mercy, everyone has a heart of compassion and giving, which has moved the people of Edmonton.

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