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Go to today"Tibetan Longevity Practices: The Body in the Chimé Sogtik tradition" by Geoffrey Samuels |
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| Geoffrey Samuels, Director of Cardiff Humanities at Cardiff University will present on Tibetan longevity attainment techniques (ts'edrub) are an important sub-set of Tibetan Tantric practices, aimed at the attainment of a healthy and long life. They form part of a wider repertoire of Tibetan longevity practices, including medical preparations, the ritual empowerment of pills made from herbal and mineral substances and their ingestion under controlled circumstances as well as the creation and conveyance of ritual power to oneself and others. At the core of longevity practice, however, particularly as performed for oneself, is the constructed relationship between one's own bodymind complex and the wider environment, mediated by the image of the Tantric deity. Geoffrey Samuel's teaching has included extensive undergraduate teaching at all levels from first to third year, on a wide variety of subjects, in social anthropology, sociology, religious studies and Asian studies, coursework postgraduate teaching, and doctoral supervision in Australia, UK and Netherlands. |
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| Date | November 11, 2009 |
| Time | 4:30PM |
| Location | 153 Uris Hall |
| Speakers | Geoffrey Samuel |
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For more information on this event contact: Durga Bor 607-255-8910 nsj1@einaudi.cornell.edu |
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