[Date and Venue]
Date: 15:00-18:00 on 13th March, 2019
Speaker: Carl ERNST（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）,
Title: “Poetry, scripted meditation, and creation narrative : Sufi additions to the yoga practices in The Ocean of Life.”
Speaker: Fabrizio SPEZIALE（the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Center for South Asian Studies, Paris）
Title: “Yogis, Persianate alchemy and medicine in South Asia”
Speaker: Somdev VASUDEVA (Kyoto University)
Title: “Systems of Wheels (cakra), Lotuses (padma) and Circles (maṇḍalas) in Esoteric Śaiva and Śākta Yoga”
Venue: Research Building No. 2, 4th Floor, Meeting Room (AA447)
Language: English
This seminar was held under the auspices of
Middle East and Islamic Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (MEIS)；Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University (KR) ; Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS) ; National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East at Kyoto University ； Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University(SIAS）； National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East at Sophia University ; Center for South Asian Studies, Kyoto University(KINDAS) ; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World” (JSPS, Sophia University).