Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness
- Time: 27.-30. Juli 2006
- Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Programm
Tuesday
27 June
- 11:00
Steinkellner, Director, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
address
Franco ,Director, Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig
Dagmar Eigner, Institute for the History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna
Taber, University of New Mexico
in All Directions (9:30-10:15)
McCrea, Harvard University
Like Us, Just Like Now”: The Tactical Implications of the Mīmāṃsā Rejection of Yogic Perception (10:15 -11:00)
Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00
Almogi, University of Hamburg
Physicality and Immanence of Gnosis in rDzogs-chen (11:30-12:15)
Wangchuk, University of Hamburg
Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (12:15-13:00)
Lunch
15:00 - 16:30
Eltschinger, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
on the Career and Cognition of Yogins (15:00-15:45)
Franco, University of Leipzig
and Metaphysics. On their correspondence and mutual interaction in South Asian Buddhism (15:45-16:30)
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:45
MacDonald, University of Vienna
in not seeing: the Madhyamaka experience
Wednesday
28 June
- 11:00
Baier, University of Vienna
and Contemplation: Late Medieval to Early Modern Europe(9:30-10:15)
Rastelli, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
God and Becoming Like Him: Yogic Perception and Its Implications in the Tradition of Pāñcarātra(10:15-11:00)
Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00
Grinshpon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Serpent and the Void; Kundalini and Empty Consciousness in Tantric Yoga (11:30-12:15)
De Michelis, University of Cambridge
do haṭhayogins perceive? Dhyāna (meditation), samādhi (enstasy) and the manipulation of mind, senses and sense-organs (manas, citta,indriyas) in selected classical and modern haṭhayoga texts (12:15-13:00)
Lunch
15:00 - 16:30
A. Maas, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
Processes, Direct Perception, and [Meditative] Concentration (samādhi / samāpatti) in Classical Sāṃkhya Yoga (15:00-15:45)
Schmücker, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
God’s cognition and normal perception: Yogic Perception according to the later tradition of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta (15:45-16:30)
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:45
Maimon, Tel Aviv University
Phases according to experience with Eastern Philosophies
Thursday
29 June
- 11:00
Ebert, University of Düsseldorf and University of Leipzig
correlatives of Dharana and their meaning (9:30-10:15)
Baker, Moorpark College, California
Culture, and Consciousness: Some Biocultural Considerations (10:15-11:00)
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:15
Riboli, Panteio University, Athens
and Transformation
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Eigner, Medical University of Vienna
of Consciousness through Suffering, Devotion, and Meditation (14:00-14:45)
Kreitler, Tel Aviv University
states of consciousness as structural and functional variations of the cognitive system (14:45-15:30)
Friday
30 June
- 11:00
van Quekelberghe, University of Koblenz-Landau
and psychotherapy: The revival of Indian meditative traditions within modern psychology, psychotherapy, & medicine (9:30-10:15)
Rüegg, University of Vienna
and altered states of consciousness: Which scientific concept is helpful? (10:15-11:00)
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Fleck, University of Vienna
Consciousness Disciplines and Knowledge Production: An Epistemological Account (11:30-12:15)
M. DelMonte, St. Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin
Thy Mind and Come to Thy Senses: A De-constructive Path to Inner Peace (12:15-13:00)
Lunch
15:00
(open end)