A Brief

History of the AAA

The History of the AAA is linked with the history of the development of Ayurveda in Australia. It all started in 1979 with the 1st International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine, or ICTAM, which was organized by Professor A. L. Basham, the author of A Wonder That Was India and the renowned Indologist and Head of the Department of Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Prof. Acharya Manfred Junius and Dr. Krishna Kumar, Italian delegates, were invited by Prof. A. L. Basham to this groundbreaking convention. This was the largest international gathering of like-minded scholars, physicians, and practitioners of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tibetan Medicine, Korean Traditional Medicine, Japanese Traditional Medicine, and other forms of traditional medicine to date. Over forty delegates from India, including Ayurvedic scholars and practitioners, writers, and physicians, attended the conference, which was organized by the famed scholar, writer, and physician Vaidya Shiva Sharma of Bombay (now Mumbai).

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