Lectures

Philipp Maas

  • “On the Conception of Disease (vyādhi) in Classical Yoga Philosophy”, Lecture at the Symposium “Classical Indian Medicine: Text and Meaning”. The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at the University College London, November 6, 2004.
  • “The Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna: Manuscripts and Lines of Transmission”, Lecture in the International Seminar on the Textual Tradition of Ayurveda, Shree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady (Kerala), January 15, 2007.
  • “Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India”, Lecture at the Institute of Post Graduate Teaching and Research, Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar (Gujarat), February 8, 2007.
  • “Building a Stemma of the Carakasaṃhitā with the Computer: Chances and Limits”, Lecture at the 30. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freiburg im Breisgau (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Panel Textgenealogie, Textkritik und Editionstechnik, September 25, 2007.
  • “Towards a Critical Edition of the Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna – First Results”, Lecture at the International Conference “History of Medicine in India: Past and Present Theories and Practices in the Light of the Classical Textual Sources”. The Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore) Ltd., Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), August 22, 2008.
  • “What Happened to the Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna? The Transmission of an Early Classical Work in Pre-modern Times”, Lecture at the Symposium “Āyurveda in Post-classical and Pre-Colonial India”, IIAS, Leiden, July 9, 2009.
  • “The Examination of the Patient’s Constitution According to the Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna”, Lecture at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference (1-5 September 2009), Section: Scientific Literature, Panel “Physicians and Patients – Textual Representations in Pre-Modern South Asia”, Kyoto, September 1, 2009.
  • “An Introduction to Modern Text Genealogy with Special Reference to the Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna”, Lecture at the Seoul National University, South Korea, September 9, 2009.
  • “Early Sāṅkhya in the Carakasaṃhitā and in Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita”, Lecture at “Asian Diversity in a Global Context”, Annual conference of the Asian Dynamics Initiative, Copenhagen, Denmark, Panel “The transmission of Sanskrit medical literature in India”, November 13, 2010.
  • “An Introduction to Computer Aided Stemmatics”, Lecture at the University of Vienna, Department for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, December 7, 2010.
  • “On Solving the Problem of Textual Contamination by Means of Computer Aided Stemmatics”, Lecture at the Workshop “Information Technologies and Innovation in Sanskrit Based Indian Studies”, University of Vienna, Department for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, March 26, 2011.

Cristina Pecchia

  • “On the Means to Acquire Medical Knowledge”, in the International Seminar on the Textual Tradition of Āyurveda (15-19 January 2007), Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady (Kerala), January 16, 2007.
  • Workshop: International Seminar on the Textual Tradition of Āyurveda, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady (Kerala), January 18-19, 2007.
  • “(In)utile Manuscripts in a Contaminated Tradition: Samples from the Carakasaṃhitā”, Lecture at the 30. Deutscher Orientalistentag (24-28 September 2007), September 25, Freiburg im Breisgau (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Panel Textgenealogie, Textkritik und Editionstechnik, 2007.
  • Workshop: Textual Traditions (in the context of the International Grand Centennial Convention and Arogya Ayurveda Expo 2008), Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), August 19-20, 2008.
  • “Transmitting the Carakasaṃhitā: Notes for a History of the Tradition”, Lecture at the Conference “The History of Medicine in India – Past and Present Theories and Practices in the Light of the Classical Textual Sources” (in the context of the International Grand Centennial Convention and Arogya Ayurveda Expo 2008), Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), August 22, 2008.
  • “Treating Diseases by Knowing Health: Patient and Physicians in Dialogue”, Lecture at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference (1-5 September 2009), Section: Scientific Literature, Panel “Physicians and Patients – Textual Representations in Pre-Modern South Asia”, University of Kyoto, September 1, 2009.
  • “Modalities of Diachronic Migration of Ancient Medical Literature: The Textual Witnesses of the Carakasaṃhitā”, Annual conference of the Asian Dynamics Initiative, Copenhagen, Denmark, Panel “The transmission of Sanskrit medical literature in India”, November 11-13, 2010.

Karin Preisendanz

  • “Medicine and Philosophy: The Carakasaṃhitā as a Source for the Early History of Indian Philosophy”, Lecture at the Symposium in Honour of G. Jan Meulenbeld on the Occasion of the Completion of his History of Indian Medical Literature, University of Groningen, April 12, 2002.
  • “Towards the Critical Edition of Classical Āyurvedic Texts”, Introductory keynote speech and concluding presentation on various aspects of work with South Asian manuscripts (parameters for ms. description, collation methodology, editorial principles and conventions, etc.) at the Workshop organized by the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
    Vienna, November 7-8, 2003
  • “The Initiation of the Medical Student According to the Carakasaṃhitā”, Lecture at the Symposium “Classical Indian Medicine: Text and Meaning”. The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at the University College London, November 3-6, 2004.
  • “Did Indian Logic Originate in the Āyurvedic Tradition?”, Lecture at the Shri Shankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady (Kerala), February 17, 2006.
  • “On the Initiatory Speech of the Medical Teacher According to the Carakasaṃhitā”, Lecture at the Conference and workshop “International Seminar on Textual Tradition of Ayurveda” (Workshop Contribution). Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady (Kerala), January 15-19, 2007.
  • “Religiöse Elemente im Ayurveda”, Lecture at the Austrian Association for Religious Studies, University of Vienna, January 26, 2007.
  • “Medicine and Brahminical Orthodoxy in Early Classical India”, Lecture at the Dipartimento di Studi Orientali, Università di Roma: “La Sapienza”, May 10, 2007.
  • “Die wissenschaftliche Debatte im alten Indien und die Entstehung der indischen Logik im Spiegel der Historiographie der indischen Philosophie” (Scholarly Debate in Ancient India and the Origin of Indian Logic as Mirrored in the Historiography of Indian Philosophy), Lecture at the Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, January 26, 2008.
  • “On Caraka Saṃhitā, Vimānasthāna 8, prose 13-14”, Three Lectures at the Symposium and Pre-Convention Workshop “Textual Studies in Ayurveda”. The Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore) Ltd., Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), August 19-20, 2008.
  • “Did Indian Logic Originate in the Medical Science?”, Lecture at the Conference “History of Medicine in India: Past and Present Theories and Practices in the Light of the Classical Textual Sources”. The Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore) Ltd., Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), August 22, 2008.
  • “Unravelling Caraka Samhita – Experiences with the Primary Literature of Ayurveda”, Lecture at the Center for Innovation in Science and Social Action. Thiru­vananthapuram (Kerala), August 25, 2008.
  • “On Some Ritual Elements in the Carakasaṃhitā”, 6th P.K. Gode Memorial Lecture. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune (Maharashtra), August 28, 2008.
  • “Debates, Colloquies and (Un)Professional Competition: Images of Physicians and Their Rivals in Early Classical Āyurveda according to the Carakasaṃhitā”, 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto. Lecture in Panel “Physicians and Patients: Textual Representations in Pre-Modern South Asia”, September 1-5, 2009.
  • “Classical Āyurveda and the Buddhist Tradition. An Investigation into the ‘Dark Age’ of the History of Pre-Classical Indian Medical Thinking With Special Emphasis on the Carakasaṃhitā,” Institute for Eastern Philosophy and Culture, Saint-Petersburg State University, May 17, 2010.
  • “Cakrapāṇidatta and the Transmission of the Text of the Carakasaṃhitā”, Annual conference of the Asian Dynamics Initiative, Copenhagen, Denmark, Panel “The transmission of Sanskrit medical literature in India”, November 11-13, 2010.