jueves, 2 de mayo de 2013

The Columbia Center Center for Buddhism and East Asian Religion

The Columbia Center Center for Buddhism and East Asian Religion (C-BEAR) and Donghwasa temple in South Korea will hold the following international conference, on the topic of the Healing Buddha (Bhaisajyaguru) at Donghwasa temple in S. Korea, from May 29 to 30, 2013. Preregistration is not required.

For further information on the conference, please visit the C-BEAR website <http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/c-bear/?page_id=267> or contact Sujung Kim <sk2921@columbia.edu>.

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Conference: "The Cult of the Healing Buddha in East Asia," Donghwasa Temple (Daegu City, South Korea), May 29-30, 2013.

Program

5/29 (Wed)

10:00 Opening Ceremony (Welcoming remarks: Ven. Seongmun,
                       Chun-fang Yu, Bernard Faure)
11:30 Lunch

Panel 1  Folk Beliefs  [Chair: Jongmyung Kim]

12:30 Mu-hee Nam, The Cult of the Medicine Buddha at Donghwasa
                       in Mt. Palgong
Discussant: Michael Como

13:30 Jongmyung Kim, Belief in the 'Healing Buddha' Katpawi in
                       Contemporary Korea
 Discussant: Samuel Morse

Panel 2 Medicine and Healing [Chair: Juhn Ahn]

15:00 C. Pierce Salguero, Putting the Medicine Buddha in Context:
                       Medicine in Chinese Buddhist Scriptures
Discussant: Juhn Ahn

16:00  Michael Como, The Medicine Buddha and the Dragon King:
                       Healing and Rainmaking in Ninth-Century Japan
Discussant: Bryan Lowe

17:00 Max Moerman, The Buddha and the Bath Water: Healing Hot
                       Springs and the Cult of Yakushi in Japan
Discussant: C. Pierce Salguero

5/30 (Thurs)

Panel 3 Changing Images [Chair: Juhn Ahn]

9:00 Nam-su Lim,  The Iconography and the Tradition of the
                       Bhaisajyaguru Image in the Ancient Period Korea
Discussant: Juhn Ahn

10:00 Yui Suzuki, Saicho and Tendai Yakushi Worship During the
                       Heian Period
Discussant: Max Moerman

11:00 Samuel Morse, The Healing Buddha as Kami: Shinto-Buddhist
                       Syncretism in the Early Heian Period and the
                       Unified Silla- Period Standing Buddha at
                       Watatsumi Shrine, Tsushima
Discussant: Bryan Lowe
12:00  Lunch

Panel 4      From Past to Present [Chair: Soonil Hwang]

13:00  Shi Zhiru, Lighting Lamps to Prolong Life: Venerating
                       Bhaisajyaguru and Popular Ritual Conceptions
                       of Healing and Longevity in Fifth- and
                       Sixth-Century China
Discussant: Yui Suzuki

14:00 Byeong-sam Jeong, The Characteristics of the Cult of
                       Bhaisajyaguru in Silla On Its Doctrinal
                       Interpretations and Cultic Practices
Discussant: Soonil Hwang

15:30 Chongxin Yao, Yearning for the Pure Land or Cherishing This
                       Life?: The Connotations of the Healing Buddha
                       Cult in Medieval China
Discussant: Shi Zhiru

16:30 Raoul Birnbaum, Glimpses of an Inner Life: Master Hongyi
                       (1880-1942), the Healing Buddha, and the
                        Power of Vows
Discussant: Chun-fang Yu

17:30-17:50 Concluding Ceremony (Concluding remarks: Ven. Seongmun,
                        Bernard Faure)

Su Jung Kim
Columbia University
<sk2921@columbia.edu>