 At age eighteen, he traveled to India for the first time, where he studied the "Eight Branches of Healing", "Somaradza", and other treatises on medicine with Paldan Phreng-ba.When he was twenty-one, Yuthok returned to Tibet, where he set up a clinic and began teaching medicine to his students.At thirty-one, he returned to India, where he received a teaching which later became known as the "Yuthok Nyingthig", "The Innermost Essence of Yuthok".