Kum Nye

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, who introduced Kum Nye to the West, at a Vesak celebration arranged by the White House Office in May 2021

Kum Nye and sKu-mNyé are a wide variety of Tibetan religious and medical body practices.

Many Tibetan Buddhist and Bon traditions contain Kum Nye practices. These can be entirely different both in purpose and in methods. For instance, some forms are very slow-moving; others are intensely aerobic. The Tibetan Medical Tantras (scriptures) are the basis for some practices, and are mainly therapeutic. Dzogchen is the basis for other practices which are mainly religious in purpose.

Three systems of sku mnye have been described and taught in detail in English. These are Kum Nye by Tarthang Tulku, the Aro gTér sKu-mNyé and the systems of bsku mnye, that are taught by the International Academy for Traditional Tibetan Medicine and the Shang Shung Institute.