Massage
Sunday, 6 Feb 2005 6:32
Historically speaking the knowledge of traditional Thai massage reached South East Asia some 2500 years ago. It is said to have been introduced then by a doctor from Northern India by the name of Jivaka Kumar Bhacca, a contemporary of Buddha and personal doctor of the Magadra King Bimbisara. Kumar Bhacca is known to have been a friend of Buddha and a doctor for the Byddhist monks. He is mentioned in the Pali Kanon, the old texts of Buddhism of the Southern school of Theravada (found today mainly in Sri Lanka, Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand).
