[Asia_news] Public Lecture Notice: Body, Consciousness, Medicine, and the Psychosomatic in Yogācāra Buddhism

[John Makeham]

PUBLIC LECTURE
 
 
 
Body, Consciousness, Medicine, and the Psychosomatic in Yogācāra Buddhism


 
 
 
Prsenter: Dan Lusthaus (Harvard University)
 
 
 
Professor Lusthaus will discuss the first two levels (bhūmi:
the five bodily senses and the mental sphere) of the Indian philosopher Asaṅga’s
foundational text Stages of Yogic Practice (Yogācārabhūmi), focusing on the
psychosomatic transition between the physical to the mental and its use of
contemporary Indian medical theories of that day to explain it, which is
comparable to the current use of neurobiological sciences to explain
meditation, etc. Underlying themes of this section of the Stages of Yogic Practice
are the causes of cognitive experience, causes of life, sickness and death, and
the relation of consciousness to the physical body.
 
 
 
Presented
by Religion and Philosophy, College of Asia and the Pacific
 
 
 
 
 
Friday
26 October, 11:00-12:30

Seminar Room E4.44,
 
Fourth
Floor,
 
Baldessin
Precinct Building (110)
 





 
Enquiries:
john.powers at anu.edu.au; john.makeham at anu.edu.au
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