歷史學X醫療史新時代

PLACE: 370
Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Description

The prevention, alleviation and cure of physical and mental ills have been
central concerns of Buddhist traditions across Asia ,
as well as a major drive in the creation and promotion of healing rituals and
therapies. At the same time, monks have played a key role in the spread and
circulation of medical knowledge beyond national borders, and Buddhist
institutions have provided fertile ground for the development and consolidation
of medical treatises and curative techniques.

The workshop Healing Texts, Healing Practices, Healing Bodies aims to be a
platform for scholars working in different fields of Buddhist studies to
explore the intersections of Buddhism and medical knowledge in comparative
perspective. The papers will analyze different therapeutic strategies emerging
from textual sources and ritual practices; discuss how discourses on physical
and mental illness have been constructed, represented and embodied; and examine
how conceptions of pollution and filth have informed notions of disease as well
as their treatment.

Schedule

Friday, April 6,
2012

2:30: Welcome by CBS and CJS Chair

2:45–5:00 — Section 1: Buddhism and Medicine in Dialogue

2:45–3:15: Janet Gyatso (Harvard)

Values and Ways of Knowing: Conflicts (and Confluences) Between Buddhism and
Medicine in Tibet

3:15–3:45: Andrew Goble ( Oregon )

Faith in Medicine: The Emergence of a New Medicinal Culture in Medieval Japan

3:45–4:15: Laura Allen (Independent Researcher)

Pox-gods, Sacred Buckets, and Big Red Babies: Late Edo
Prints for Disease Prevention

4:15–4:45: Discussion chaired by Robert Sharf ( Berkeley )

5:00–5:30: Refreshments

Saturday,
April 7, 2012

10:00–12:15 — Section 2: Monks, Healers and their Texts

10:00–10:30: Amy Langenberg ( Auburn )

Female Herbalists, Midwives, and their Clientele in Early Buddhist India : A View
from the Vinaya Tradition

10:30–11:00: C. Pierce Salguero ( Penn State )

Buddhist Medicine in Crosscultural Translation: Disease and Healing in the
Chinese Tripitaka

11:00–11:30: Paul Copp ( Chicago )

Buddhist Healers and their Handbooks: Scribal and Ritual Practice in
Manuscript Culture

11:30–12:00: Discussion chaired by Jake Dalton ( Berkeley )

12:00–1:30: Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 — Keynote Lecture

Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard)

The Buddhism of Western Medicine

2:30–2:45: Coffee Break

2:45–4:15 — Section 3: Illness, Pollution and Madness

2:45–3:15: Edward Drott ( Missouri )

The Meanings and Uses of Pollution in Late Heian Legends and Didactic Tales

3:15–3:45: Benedetta Lomi (Berkeley)

Healing Through the Six Syllables: Body and Medicine in the Rokujikyō-hō

3:45–4:15: James Robson (Harvard)

Monks, Monasteries and Madness: The Relationship between Buddhist
Monasteries and Mental Institutions in East Asia

4:15–4:45: Discussion, chaired by Regan Murphy ( Berkeley )

4:45–5:15: Plenary Discussion and Concluding Remarks
chaired by Benedetta Lomi

5:15: Reception

Please contact the Center for Japanese Studies (cjs@berkeley.edu, 510‑642‑3156) or Benedetta
Lomi (b.lomi@berkeley.edu) for more information.

http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/events/2012.04.06w.html