Thursday, June 20th 2013, For further information,

please check the CSJR website:

9:30am - 7:00pm http://www.soas.ac.uk/csjr/events/
Contact Information
Venue: SOAS, University of London Benedetta Lomi, email: bl21@soas.ac.uk

Room 4421 (9:30 - 12:00)

Room B104 (13:00 - 19:00)

Buddhist Medicine and

Asian Medical Systems
 Buddhist Medicine and Asian Medical Systems
Thursday, June 20th 2013, SOAS, University of London
9:30am - 7:00pm
Venues:
Room 4421 (9:30 - 12:00)
Room B104 (13:00 - 19:00)

The workshop Buddhist Medicine and Asian Medical Systems wishes to be a platform for scholars working in the fields of religious
and historical studies, history of medicine, and medical anthropology to explore the intersections of healing rituals and medical
knowledge in comparative perspective. Through the discussion of ethnographic, textual and visual data drawn from different Asian
contexts, we hope to stimulate a comparative discussion addressing common methodological concerns.

Specifically the workshop aims at: 1) analysing the overlapping of therapeutic strategies emerging from medical and religious
sources/practices; 2) proposing possible approaches to ritualised forms of healing beyond notions of “magical medicine” 3) explor-
ing new avenues for comparative work on healing across different fields of knowledge.

Programme

9:30 - 9:45 Coffee

9:45 - 10:00 Welcome by CSJR Chair Lucia Dolce and Workshop Introduction

10:00 - 12:00 Panel 1: Chaired by Lucia Dolce (SOAS)

Benedetta Lomi (SOAS)

Cur(s)es, Dharanis and Medical Remedies. Thinking Through Magical Medicine in Heian Japan

Katja Triplett (University of Göttingen)

Hippiatry and Ritual Healing: Considering Japanese Buddhist Illustrated Manuscripts on Equine Medicine

Keith Howard (SOAS)

Rhythms of Soul(s) in Shamanic Healing: Case Studies from Nepal (Tamu), Siberia (Sakha) and Korea

Chaired Q&A

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:00 Panel 2: Chaired by Barbara Gerke (Humboldt University)

Michael Stanley-Baker (UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity)

A Social Geography of the Medico-Religious Market in Medieval China

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths)

Tibetan Medicine from Dunhunag: Probing Borders between ‘Medicine’ and ‘Ritual’

Lars Laamann (SOAS)

Torch-Bearers of Modernity? Western Missionaries, Demonism and Exorcism in Modern China (1860s-1930s)

Chaired Q&A

15:00 - 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 - 17:30 Panel 3: Chaired by Kit Davies (SOAS)

Barbara Gerke (Humboldt University)

Ritualised Pharmacology: Religious Empowerments of Mercurial Tibetan Medicines

Fabrizio Ferrari (University of Chester)

The Myth of the AIDS-goddess: Truth or Fabrication? Stories of 'Bad Blood' in Bengali Folklore

Tullio Lobetti (SOAS)

Healing (and) the Body, Comparative Ontological and Cosmological Perspectives

Chaired Q&A

17:30 - 18:00
Final Roundtable chaired by Lucia Dolce (SOAS)

18:00-19:00 Wine Reception