Besides the epidemics project, the Viennese Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (ISTB) houses two other research projects on medical traditions focusing on Āyurveda and Tibetan medicine:
- Pandemic Narratives of Tibet and the Himalaya
- Ayurveda and Philology: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and His Legacy
To highlight this research focus, we organize a one-day workshop introducing first findings by the involved scholars.
June 23, 2023, physically at the University of Vienna, ISTB, SR1.
Online event: univienna.zoom.us/j/68080455024 (Meeting-ID: 680 8045 5024; access code: 302045). We start at 9:30 am CEST.
More details on the event can be fond at the ISTB website.
My contribution will be on The Threats of Adharma and Environmental Disturbances: Understanding Epidemics in Pre-modern South Asia. I will focus on theories and speculations about the causes of epidemics and similar events as found in the early pre-modern ayurvedic sources.