[KS] Hello! Could you please post this info to Koreanstudies Digest? Thank you very much!

[Su Jung Kim]

Dear Koreanists,


For those of you who will be in Korea next month, you are cordially invited
to the following international conference.

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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 at 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

Panel1           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
                        Bhaiṣajyaguru Image in the Ancient Period Korea”
Discussant: Juhn Ahn
10:00 Yui Suzuki, “Saichō 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
                        Bhaiṣajyaguru 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
                        Bhaiṣajyaguru 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)
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