<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div>Dear Koreanists,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For those of you who will be in Korea next month, you are cordially invited to the following international conference.</div>
<div><br></div><div>=======================================</div><div>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.</div>
<div>Preregistration is not required. <br></div><div><br></div><div>For further information on the conference, please visit the C-BEAR website <br></div><div>(<a href="http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/c-bear/?page_id=267" target="_blank">http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/c-bear/?page_id=267</a>) or contact Sujung Kim (<a href="mailto:sk2921@columbia.edu" target="_blank">sk2921@columbia.edu</a>).<br>
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Program <br></div><div><div><br></div><div>5/29 (Wed)<br></div><div>10:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Opening Ceremony (Welcoming remarks: Ven. <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Seongmun</span>, </div>
<div> Chun-fang Yu, Bernard Faure)</div><div>11:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lunch<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Panel1 Folk Beliefs [Chair: Jongmyung Kim]</div>
<div>12:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Mu-<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">hee</span> Nam, “The Cult of the Medicine Buddha at Donghwasa </div><div> <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">in</span> Mt. <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Palgong</span>”<br>
</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Michael Como</div><div>13:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Jongmyung Kim, “Belief in the ‘Healing Buddha’ Katpawi in </div><div> Contemporary Korea”</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Samuel Morse</div><div><br></div><div>Panel 2<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Medicine and Healing [Chair: <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Juhn</span> Ahn]<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
<div>15:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>C. Pierce Salguero, “Putting the Medicine Buddha in Context: </div><div> Medicine in Chinese Buddhist Scriptures” </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Juhn</span> Ahn</div>
<div>16:00 <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Michael Como, “The Medicine Buddha and the Dragon King: </div><div> Healing and Rainmaking in Ninth-Century Japan”</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Bryan Lowe</div>
<div>17:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Max Moerman, “The Buddha and the Bath Water: Healing Hot </div><div> Springs and the Cult of Yakushi in Japan”</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: C. Pierce Salguero</div>
<div><br></div><div>5/30 (Thurs)<br></div><div>Panel 3<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Changing Images [Chair: <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Juhn</span> Ahn]<br></div><div>9:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Nam-<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">su</span> Lim, “The Iconography and the Tradition of the </div>
<div> Bhaiṣajyaguru Image in the Ancient Period Korea”<br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Juhn</span> Ahn</div><div>10:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Yui Suzuki, “Saichō and Tendai Yakushi Worship During the </div>
<div> Heian Period” </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Max Moerman </div><div>11:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Samuel Morse, “The Healing Buddha as Kami: Shinto-Buddhist </div>
<div> <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Syncretism</span> in the Early Heian Period and the Unified Silla-</div><div> Period Standing Buddha at Watatsumi Shrine, Tsushima”</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Bryan Lowe </div><div>12:00 <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lunch<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><br></div><div>
Panel 4 <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>From Past to Present [Chair: Soonil Hwang] </div><div>13:00 <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Shi Zhiru, “Lighting Lamps to Prolong Life: Venerating </div><div>
Bhaiṣajyaguru and Popular Ritual Conceptions of Healing and </div><div> Longevity in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China”</div><div> Discussant: Yui Suzuki</div>
<div>14:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Byeong-<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">sam</span> Jeong, “The Characteristics of the Cult of </div><div> Bhaiṣajyaguru in Silla<br></div>
<div> <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">:</span>On Its Doctrinal Interpretations and Cultic Practices” </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Soonil Hwang </div>
<div>15:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Chongxin Yao, “Yearning for the Pure Land or Cherishing This </div><div> Life?: The Connotations of the Healing Buddha Cult in </div><div> Medieval China”</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Shi Zhiru</div><div>16:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Raoul Birnbaum, “Glimpses of an Inner Life: Master Hongyi </div><div> (1880-1942), the Healing Buddha, and the Power of Vows”<br>
</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Discussant: Chun-fang Yu</div><div>17:30-17:50<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Concluding Ceremony (Concluding remarks: Ven. <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">Seongmun</span>, </div>
<div> Bernard Faure)</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>