Daoism and the Contemporary World

Daoism and the Contemporary World: An International Conference on Daoist Studies

Boston University, June 5-7, 2003

Sponsors: Boston University Department of Religion and Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (Harvard University), www.daoiststudies.org

Financial support: Boston University Humanities Foundation; Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (Harvard University); Forum for Ecology and Religion at the Harvard Center for the Environment; Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College,

Role: first in a series of international conferences to be held every year or two alternately in China, Europe, and North America.

Discussion areas:

Conference Program


 Thursday June 5
12:00 Registration (2nd Fl, George Sherman Union, Boston University)
1:00

Welcome (Robert Neville and Wilt Idema)
Introductory Remarks (Livia Kohn and Liu Xun)
George Sherman Union, Conference Auditorium (2nd Fl)
2:00 Qigong Practice (Roger Jahnke)
2:30

Panels (Rooms 310, 312, 315, 320)

1. Daoist Ontology and Ethics (Chair: John Berthrong, Room 320)
Cheng Chung-Ying, "Onto-Ethics and Dimensions of Dao"
Eske Møllgaard, "Zhuangzi's Ethics of no Concern"
Zhang Ji, "Grand Dao: Ge Hong's Ontological Synthesis"
Discussant: Xiao Yang

2. Daoism in Modern China (Chair: Xun LIU, Room 315)
Thomas Hahn, "Images of Daoism in Photographic Sources"
Vincent Goossaert, "The Daoist Authorities: Comparing Celestial Masters and
Baiyun Guan Abbots in 19th and 20th Centuries"
Kim Sung-Hae, "Morning and Evening Services in Contemporary Daoism" View Paper
Discussant: Paul Cohen

3. Quanzhen Daoism and Self-Cultivation Techniques (Chair: Han Aiguo, Room 310)
Louis Komjathy, "Alchemical Transformation in Early Quanzhen"
Stephen Eskildsen, "Compassion and Altruism in Quanzhen Daoism"
Robert E. Marchand, "Alternatives to Daoist Cereal Avoidance Practice"
Discussant: Li Wang

4. Aesthetics and Literature (Chair: Ellen Widmer, Room 312)
Mark Meulenbeld, "Ritual development of the Divine Thunder Generals in Ming Fiction"
Ming Dong Gu, "The Impact of Daoist Metaphysics on a Chinese Aesthetic"
Zhou Zuyan, "Lyricization of the Chaos in Inebriation: A Taoist and Neo-Taoist Dimension of The Dream of the Red Chamber."
Mingmei Yip, "Daoist Aesthetics and the Zither in Literature"
Discussant: Wilt Idema
4;45 Qigong Practice (Rey Tiquia)
5:00 Book Exhibit and Exchange (Terrace Lounge)
 

Friday June 6
8:45 Qigong Practice (Mayer Kirkpatrick)
9:00

Panels

5. Daoism and Art (1) (Chair: Jing Anning). Room 320
Lennert Gesterkamp, "Daoist Murals in the Yuan State Beiyue Temple."
Jing Anning, "Portraits of Quanzhen Masters from the Song Period"
Seung-hye Sun, "The Image of Xiwangmu in Korean and Japanese Art"
-Discussant: Patricia Karetzky

6. Daoist Health and Healing Techniques (Chair: Lonny Jarett, Room 315)
Mayer Kirkpatrick, "The Dao of Presence" PDF File
Rey Tiquia, "Daoist Natural Bodies"
Mei Cha, "Taoist Health Practices on Qingcheng Mountain"
Discussant: Stephen Jackowicz

7. Daoism and Ecology (Chair: Norman Girardot, Room 310)
Zhang Guangbao, "The Ecological Dimensions of Daoist Sacred Landscape"
Denver Nixon: The Immediate and Emergent Environmental Benefits of Qigong Cultivation
Eric Sean Nelson, "Nature and Ecology in Daoism and Heidegger"
Discussant: James Miller

Quiet Room: Room 312
11:15 Qigong Practice (Stephen Jackowicz)
11:30

Lunch break
1:00

Panels (Rooms 310, 312, 315, 320)

8. Women in Daoism (Chair: Charlotte Furth, Room 315)
Catherine Despeux, "Cao Daochong, woman commentator on the Daode jing"
Shinyi Chao, "The Perfection of Daoist Priestesses in the Song-Yuan Era"
Ho Wanli, "Daoist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan"
Livia Kohn, "Are Women in Daoism Different from Women in Chinese Society?" View Paper
Discussant: Suzanne Cahill

9. Tang Daoism (Chair:Marlies Bartl, Room 310)
Norman H. Rothschild, "Daoism under Empress Wu"
Imre Hamar, "Daoism and Huayan Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty"
Olivier Boutonnet, "Wu Yun's Graduation Scheme in the Process of Realization"
Discussant: Robert Gimello

10. The Practice of Inner Alchemy (Chair: Vincent Goossaert, Room 320)
Li Wang, "Bai Yuchan's View of Inner Alchemy"
Hu Aiguo,"Contemporary Daoist Taijimen: Its Philosophy and Practice."
Michael Winn, "Magic Squares, Planetary Tones, and the Daoist Body:Internal Alchemy in a Global Sacred Science" PDF File
Discussant: Stephen Eskildsen
3:15 Qigong Practice (Bede Bidlack)
3:30

Break
3:45

Panels (Rooms 310, 312, 315, 320)

11. New Approaches to Daoist Texts (Chair: Michael Lafargue, Room 310)
Erin Cline,"Two Interpretations of de in the Daode jing"
Ronnie Littlejohn, "The Daode jing as a Ritual Text"
Stephan-Peter Bumbacher, "A Buddhist Sutra's Transformation into a Daoist
Text"
Discussant: Jeffrey Dippmann

12. Daoism and Medicine (Chair: Bridie Andrews, Room 320)
Ishida Hidemi, "Daoistic Origins of Contemporary Chinese Medicine"
Dennis Willmont, "The Daoist Origins of Acupuncture"
Everett Zhang, "The Revival of Daoist Sexual Healing Practices in China"
Discussant: T.J Hinrichs

13. Daoism and Popular Culture (Chair: Rey Tiquia, Room 315)
Suzanne Cahill, "Daoism in Hong Kong Horror Movies"
Julia Hardy, "Expressions of Dao in 20th Century American Poetry and Art"
Norman Girardot, "Dao Now Oh Wow: Daoism in America in the 21st Century"
Discussant: Liu Ming

Quiet Room: Room 312
6:00 Walk or ride to Fairbank Center (Central Square, 625 Massachusetts Avenue, 2F)
6:30 Dinner Reception
 Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (Harvard University)
 

Saturday June 7
8;45 Qigong Practice (Michael Winn)
9:00

Panels (Rooms 310, 312, 315, 320)

14. Aspects of Daoist Thought (Chair: Michael Puett, Room 310)
Paul van Els, "An Alternative Reading of Huainanzi: The Wenzi"
Geoffrey Redmond, "Is The Tao of Physics the Unchanging Dao?"
James Giles, "The Tao as Consciousness"
Discussant: Michael LaFargue

15. Daoism and Art - 2 (Chair: Eugene Wang, Room 320)
Patricia Karetzky, "Daoist Imagery on Medieval Funereal Objects"
Shih-shan Huang, ""Imagining Efficacy: The Common Ground between Buddhist and Daoist Pictorial Art in Song China (960-1279)"
Liu Xun, "Visualizing Perfection: Daoist Paintings of Bixia Yuanjun in the Qing"
Discussant: Susan Naquin

16. Daoism in the West (Chair: Brock Silvers, Room 315)
Jonathan H. X. Lee, "California's Daoist and Buddho-Daoist Temples"
Roger Jahnke, "Westen Scientific Equivalents of Qi"
Oliver Grasmueck, "Dao's Way to the West"
Discussant: Julia Hardy

Common Room: Room 312
11:15 Qigong Practice (Roger Jahnke)
11:30

Roundtable Discussion: Daoism and Its Future in China and the World (Room 315)
Moderators: Livia Kohn and Liu Xun
Participants: Liu Ming, Susan Naquin, Suzanne Cahill, Vincent Goosaert, James Miller, Brock Silvers