PANEL 16: Medicine and Astrology between Tibet, Mongolia and China, Late 17th–early 20th Centuries
Convenor: Stacey Van Vleet
THURSDAY 25 JULY
Chair: Janet Gyatso
| 9:00–9:30 | བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་གཞུང་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ཁད་ཆོས་འགའ་ཞིག་བཤད་པ། On the difference between Tibetan and Chinese medicine
Thubten Phuntsok |
| 9:30–10:00 | Tycho Brahe in Tibet: Introduction, translation and modification of European calendrical mathematics and cosmology in Amdo, 18th–19th centuries
Lobsang Yongdan |
| 10:00–10:30 | Envisioning medicine between Tibet, Mongolia and China: Historical notes on the illustrated, quadrilingual 19th century medical compendium Mdzes mtshar mig rgyan
Stacey Van Vleet |
| 10:30–11.00 |
Tea and coffee
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| 11.00–11:30 | Counting bones and moving joints at the Medical College in Lhasa in the late 17th century?
Katharina Sabernig |
| 11:30–12:00 | Ringzin Sambu Danzhinov (1826–1923) – Buryat amchi and astrologer from the Aginsk Manba Datsan
Natalia Bolsokhoeva |
| 12:00–12:30 | The Eye-healing Avalokiteshvara – History, Art and Medicine
Olaf Czaja |