Director of the National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa receives the Wellness Visionary Award
1 November 2026
Dr Padma Gurmet, Director of the National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa at Leh, has been given the Wellness Visionary Award.
Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh conferred it at the 3rd International Conference on Wellness, held from 30 October to 1 November 2026.
The award recognises her work in traditional medicine and whole-person health care.
Sowa-Rigpa is an old system of medicine of the Himalayan region, practised in Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills.
The institute at Leh, known by the short form NISR, is the national body for teaching and research in that system.
It sits alongside the other Indian systems of medicine looked after by the Ayush side of government.
In plain words
Sowa-Rigpa Sowa-Rigpa — A traditional Himalayan system of medicine, also called the Amchi system.
NISR National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa — The national institute for Sowa-Rigpa teaching and research, at Leh.