Conference Programme: Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia
The joint conference of AyurYog with three other Vienna projects on Asian medicine is coming up and we are delighted to announce the programme. The conference is open to the public. Come and join us for what promises to be an exciting event!
TUESDAY, August 1st
9.00 Welcoming addresses and acknowledgements
Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
Dagmar Wujastyk (ERC Starting Grant AyurYog)
Stephan Kloos (ERC Starting Grant RATIMED)
Barbara Gerke (FWF Lise-Meitner Senior Research Fellowship)
Katharina Sabernig (FWF project P26129-G21)
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Chair: Dagmar Wujastyk
9.30 Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania
Immortal matters: the material culture of longevity practices, 16th – 18th CE
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Fabrizio Speziale, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
Rasaśāstra, rasāyana and Persian medical culture in South Asia
12.00 Herbert Schwabl, PADMA AG, Switzerland
Asian medicines in Europe – perspectives for the future
13.00 Lunch break
Session 1: chair: Suzanne Newcombe
14.30 Katharina Sabernig, Medical University of Vienna
Topography and proportions of the body in Asian medical traditions
15.00 Dagmar Wujastyk, University of Vienna
Rasāyana in Sanskrit alchemical literature
15.30 Christèle Barois, University of Vienna
Longevity practices from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad onwards
16.00 Coffee break
Session 2, chair: Christèle Barois
16.30 Tenzin Lhundup, Men-Tsee-Khang, Dharamsala, India
Approach of Tibetan medicine towards healthy longevity
17.00 Philipp Maas, University of Leipzig
On Caraka’s account of the origin of rasāyana
WEDNESDAY, August 2nd
Session 3, chair: Barbara Gerke
9.30 Stephan Kloos & Harilal Madhavan, Institute for Social Anthropology,
Vienna
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10.00 Damdinsuren Natsagdorj, Manba Datsan Mongolian Traditional
Medicine and Training Centre, Ulaanbaatar
Current status and future trends of development of Mongolian traditional
medicine
10.30 Coffee break
Session 4, chair: Katharina Sabernig
11.00 Gudrun Bühnemann, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Śiva as the conqueror of death and lord of the nectar of immortality
11.30 Petra Maurer, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
The various names and forms of “Tibetan Yoga”
12.00 Barbara Gerke, University of Vienna
Entangled Efficacies in the Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills
12.30 Lunch break
Session 5, chair: Christèle Barois
14.00 Suzanne Newcombe, Inform, LSE
Longevity practices in India during the modern period: public health
imperatives and individual aspirations
14.30 Karl Baier, University of Vienna
Yoga and alchemy within fin de siècle occultism
15.00 Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Goldsmiths, University of London
Exploring the Asian roots of Roger Bacon’s medical alchemy
15.30 Coffee break
Session 6, chair: Stephan Kloos
16.00 Jason Birch, Haṭha Yoga Project, SOAS, London
Liberation and immortality in early haṭha and rājayoga traditions
16.30 Sienna Craig & Calum Blaikie
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3rd
Session 6, chair: Barbara Gerke
9.30 Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University
Tantric immortality: the factors of long life and the transcendence of time.
10.00 Jan van der Valk, University of Kent, Canterbury
The pharmaceutical becomings of Tibetan medicines in Switzerland:
making things with humans along PADMA’s assembly line
10.30 Coffee break
Session 7, chair: Stephan Kloos
11.00 Ilona Kędzia, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Medicine, alchemy and yoga in the esoteric language of the Vaittiya
Kallāṭam
11.30 Anna Sehnalova, Oxford University
Tibetan Bonpo Mendrub: the Bonpo precious formula’s transmission and
practice
12.00 Florian Ploberger, independent scholar, Vienna
A comparative study between Chinese formulas and Tibetan formulas:
differences and opportunities
13.00 Lunch break
Session 8, chair: Katharina Sabernig
14.30 Isabella Würthner, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Curing menstrual disorders in Tibetan medical literature
15.00 Ian Baker, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Intoxicating solutions: therapeutic and medicinal use of psychoactive
substances in tantric Buddhism
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Final discussion
Chair: Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University