Beastie Boy Travels to India
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009The Beastie Boys’ Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch sent out an email to his devoted followers, discussing his recovery from salivary gland cancer. The musician took his time to go to India and talk with Tibetan doctors about alternative medicine and advice on how to proceed. He wrote “I’m taking Tibetan medicine and at the recommendation of the Tibetan doctors I’ve been eating a vegan/organic diet, which surprisingly enough was harder to do in India than it is now that I’m back home. Here I can just shop for the right food and cook… a lot easier than depending on restaurants. When I was in India I visited an ani gompa (a nunnery) called jamyang choling. They did a puja (religious ceremony) for me to help me get well. One nun said to me ‘we do prayers and then you are better.’ So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.”