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>
