Australian Association of Buddhist Studies seminar series, Semester 1, 2018. Meditation, Mind, and Healing: From India to Tibet and Beyond. Lecture Theatre S325, John Woolley Building, University of Sydney.
1. Trauma and Time: Tibetan Medical Responses to Nepal’s 2015 Earthquakes
Sienna R. Craig
Dartmouth College, USA
Wednesday 7 March, 6:00-7:30pm
2. Meditation in Tibetan Buddhism: Mind, Mahāmudrā and the Rhetoric of Immediacy
Jim Rheingans
University of Sydney
Thursday 15 March, 6:00-7:30pm
3. Facts or Fakes? Reconsidering Śāntideva’s Names, Life, and Works
Akira Saito
International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, Tokyo
Thursday 22 March, 6:00-7:30pm
4. Bhutanese Ritual Healers and the Shamanic-Buddhist Spectrum of their Healing Practices
Mona Schrempf
Kiel / Westminster / Berlin
Thursday 19 April, 6:00-7:30pm
5.The Perfected Body: Healing and Bodily Praxis Among the Bāuls of Bengal
Jarrod Hyam
University of Sydney
Thursday 26 April, 6:00-7:30pm
6. Unbalanced Flows in the Subtle Body: Tibetan Understandings of Psychiatric Illness and How to Deal With it
Geoffrey Samuel
University of Sydney
Thursday 10 May, 6:00-7:30pm