Health and well-being are close to PADMA’s heart. People, plants and health are the daily focus of PADMA’s activities. The foundations for this are passion and respectful cooperation on an equal footing with our customers, employees, suppliers and partners. Together we can shape the future.
Team play, appreciation, reliability and future-orientation are binding PADMA values. At PADMA, each and every individual contributes in their own individual way to living these core values. Because great things can only be achieved together. To remain successful in the long term, PADMA creates trust.
Cultural commitment
PADMA focuses on social responsibility, is committed to recognising Tibetan medicine and contributes to the preservation of this cultural heritage. This responsibility and the values we live by are reflected in PADMA’s commitment:
PADMA made it possible to modernise the library at Aginsk Monastery, which was once home to one of the most important printing houses in the Tibetan Buddhist world. Thanks to the dry steppe climate, a collection of rare manuscripts has been preserved there, including the first records of the PADMA formulas.
PADMA is particularly proud of its involvement in the preservation of the “Atlas of Tibetan Medicine”, the oldest collection of Tibetan pictorial tablets on display in leading museums in America, Europe and Asia; this hand-painted atlas is an antique of inestimable value that has miraculously escaped destruction and is now outside China.
Dialogue between traditions
Switzerland and Tibet – two mountainous countries – have been friends for a long time. PADMA maintains close relations with the Tibetan diaspora worldwide and the Tibetan community in Switzerland.
As a sign of recognition of its pioneering role in the European market, PADMA was visited by H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. The Dalai Lama praised PADMA’s contribution to the successful dialogue between medical traditions. PADMA’s scientific research and good manufacturing practices are contributing to tangible successes on the common path to global health and well-being, said the Dalai Lama.
Knowledge transfer
PADMA maintains a lively dialogue with doctors and scientists from all over the world. The PADMA research team publishes studies in renowned journals, accepts invitations to world congresses and organises conferences that strengthen the transfer of knowledge.
As a pioneering company researching Tibetan herbal formulas and fostering scientific dialogue between East and West, PADMA has been portrayed in several documentary films and books on complementary medicine.
PADMA celebrated its golden jubilee with the exhibition “50 Years of PADMA: Spirit of Pioneers”. Numerous representatives of Swiss pharmacy, medicine and science as well as guests of honour from all over the world gathered for the opening. These included the descendants of the Badmajev medical dynasty from New York and scientists from Buryatia and Tibet. The exhibition was visited by numerous customers who have remained loyal to PADMA products for decades.