The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society, University of British Columbia, will host the fifth annual Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Conference at UBC.
Thursday, May 28:
12:00 PM onwards REGISTRATION
1:30 – 3:00 PM PANEL 1 Concepts of Health and Wellbeing
Stephen Harris (Leiden University): “Buddhism, Suffering and Philosophical accounts of Well-Being”
Eyal Aviv (George Washington University): “Toward a Buddhist Theory of Wellbeing”
Giuliano Giustarini (Mahidol University): “The Philosophy of Health in Pali Buddhist Texts”
3:30 – 5:00 PM PANEL 2a Taking Medicine into Ancient Buddhism
Hin-Tak Sik (University of Hong Kong): “Ancient Indian Medicine in the Bhaiṣajya-skandhaka of the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya”
Ming Chen (Peking University): “Ancient Indian Remedies in Chinese Medical and Buddhist Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan”
A. Mujeeb Khan (University of Cambridge):”Buddhist Medicine in Ancient Japan: Ishinpō and Its Sources”
3:30 – 5:00 PM PANEL 2b Bringing Tradition into the Secular
Cody Bahir (Leiden University): “The Dharmakāya’s Personal Physician: Wuguang’s (1918-2000) Hermeneutic of Healing and Resurrection of Zhenyan”
Celine Coderey (National University of Singapore): “Buddhism and Indigenous Medicine in Myanmar”
Tyler Phan (University College London): “Buddhism and Traditional Vietnamese Medicine: An Account of Buddhist Medicine in Secularized Viet Nam at Quang Pagoda (Chùa Tuờng Quang)”
Friday, May 29:
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PANEL 3a Premodern Chinese Buddhism
Jinhua Chen (University of British Columbia): “Zhiyi as a Meditation Master and Physician”
Susan Andrews (Mount Allison University): “Gathering Medicines Among the Cypress: The Relationship between Healing and Place in the Earliest Records of Mount Wutai”
Robban Toleno (University of British Columbia): “Non-Cartesian Nourishment? Four-Foods Doctrine in Chinese Buddhism”
Hsin Yi Lin (Columbia University): “Dealing with Childbirth in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Healing Resources in the Medieval Buddhist Texts”
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PANEL 3b Contemporary Engagements with Mental Health
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva (Emory University): “Exploring the Wider Ethical and Cognitive Resources of Buddhism for Psychotherapy: The Case of Japanese Naikan Practice and CBCT (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training)”
Brendan R. Ozawa-de Silva (Life University): “Healing Through Compassion: The Implementation of Buddhism-Derived Compassion Training in Schools and Other Contexts”
Bryan Phillips (University of Virginia): “Floatation REST and Buddhist Perspectives: Reconsidering Calm Abiding (samatha), Single-pointed Concentration (samadhi), and Inner Clarity (nang-gsal) in a Novel Practice Context”
Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida): “Synaptic Dharma, Secure (Non)-Attachment, and Healing Trauma: From Reductive to Dialogical Perspectives in the Buddhist-Psychoanalytic Encounter”
2:00 – 4:00 PM PANEL 4a Enhancing Health in Tibetan Buddhism
Douglas Duckworth (Temple University): “Three Types of Healing Practice in the Kagyü Tradition of Tibet”
Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University): “Aspects of Health within the Tibetan Long-Life Practice of Amitāyus”
Charles Oliphant (University of Oxford): “Ancient Tibetan Formulas for Life Enhancement: The Tibetan Tradition of bcud len (essence extraction)”
Frances Garrett (University of Toronto): “Therapeutic Technologies for Creating Children”
2:00 – 4:00 PM PANEL 4b Social and Public Dimensions of Movements for Health
Jessica L. Main (University of British Columbia): “Shin Buddhism and the National Campaign to Eradicate Leprosy in the 20th Century: Repurposing the Symbol of Empress Kōmyō Nursing a Leper”
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (University of Iowa): “A Special Faculty of Taste: Diet and Ascesis in Western Buddhism”
Wakoh Shannon Hickey (Notre Dame of Maryland University): “Meditation as Medicine: A History and Critique”
Pemarathana Soorakkulame (University of Pittsburgh): “Ritual Worship of the Buddha and Psychological Wellbeing”
7:00 – 8:30 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS Toward a Global History of Buddhism & Medicine
Asian Centre Auditorium, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC
Pierce Salguero (Penn State University’s Abington College)
Saturday, May 30:
10:30 – 12:00 PM PANEL 5a Anthropological Approaches to Healing
Rao Lide (Yanzheng) (University of Hong Kong): “Buddhist Stories of Healing Based on the Section of Benefactors in the Five Biographies of Eminent Monks”
Antje Richter (University of Colorado at Boulder): “Making Sense of Illness and Healing: The Vimalakīrti Sūtra in Medieval Chinese Literature”
Susannah Deane (Cardiff University): “Sadness, Faith, and Healing: A Case Study of Buddhism and Madness in a Tibetan Exile”
10:00 –12:00 PM PANEL 5b Targeted Care: Addiction, Compulsion, End of Life
Clark Chilson (University of Pittsburgh): “Contemplation over Compulsion: Naikan as an Analytical Meditation for Treating Addiction”
Kenta Kasai (Center for Information on Religion): “Buddhism and Addiction Recovery”
Sara Lytle (Rush University Medical Center): “Walking the Path Together, Crossing Alone: The Practice of Care in Buddhist Hospices”
Upali Sraman (Harvard University): “Healing through Spiritual Care: Arts and Ethics of Chaplaincy as Gleaned from Some Buddhist Narratives”
12:00 PM CLOSING
For more information on the Buddhism and Wellbeing Conference, please visit the Conference Page or visit bcsprogram@gmail.com for registration details.
Sponsor: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society
Place: St. John’s College, 2111 Lower Mall, Vancouver, BC
Type: Conference
Dates: Thursday, May 28, 2015 to Saturday, May 30, 2015
Time: Thursday noon-5:00pm, Friday 9:30am-8:30pm, Saturday 10:00am-noon
