Dear list members, Please find below our schedule for the first semester seminar series, titled Meditation, Mind, and Healing: From India to Tibet and Beyond. All seminars will be held in Lecture Theater S325 in the John Woolley Building at the University of Sydney (a campus map may be found here). Before each session we will also send a reminder with an abstract and short biography of the speaker. We hope you can attend this semester's program. Kind regards, AABS Executive 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 Additional presentations may be announced during the semester.