About the Congress

Third International Conference

Daoism and Contemporary World – Daoist Cultivation in Theory and Practice

25.-28. May 2006

Abbey Frauenwoerth in Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany

First conference in Europe in a series of international conferences on Daoism to be held every year or two alternately in China, Europe, and North America, first in Boston 2003 and second in Chengdu (PR China) 2004. Its aim is to promote academic exchange and research in the field of Daoism and it will cover phiosophical, linguistic and historical topics as well as possible contributrions of Daoism concerning contemporary cultural, medical and ecological problems.

Organizers

Department of Asian Studies, Institute of Sinology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich;
Medical Association for Qigong Yangsheng, Bonn;
Societas Medicinae Sinensis (International Society for Chinese Medicine), Munich.

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Hans VAN ESS, Munich
Prof. QING Xitai, Chengdu
Prof. CHEN Yaoting, Shanghai
Prof. Yoshinobu SAKADE, Kansai
Prof. Catherine DESPEUX, Paris
Prof. Livia KOHN, Boston

Presentations on

• Daoism and Yangsheng practices
• Daoism and medicine
• Daoism in China today
• Daoism in the west
• Daoist cultivation in history
• Comparative monastic cultivation
• Daoism and ecology
• Daoism and political thought
• Daoism and Art, Literature and Music

Further down this page you will find all the speakers with the title of their paper and their affiliation in alphabetical order. On the page programme you will find the actual programme with the distribution of the panels.

Presentation format

individual papers
complete panels with approx. three papers, chair and discussan

Languages

English and Chinese (abstracts will be translated), some presentations in German

Schedule

The conference will begin on Thursday, May 25, at 2 PM, with a plenary session (welcome, keynote speaker) and end on Saturday around 5 PM. For details see Programme.

An excursion to monasteries and mountains will take place on Sunday. For details see Programme – social Programme.

Conference venue

The Conference will take place in the Abbey Frauenwoerth in Chiemsee, Bavaria in Germany. For details about the abbey, accommodation and how to get there, please see Accommodation.

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Speakers in alphabetical order

CHAN Man Sing (with LAW Yuen Mei), University of Hongkong, HK
Daoist Planetary Images in Yuan China

CHANG Chia-feng, Department of History, National Taiwan University, Taipeh, Taiwan
The Interrelationship between Medicine and Daoism in Pre-modern China: A Case Study on the Conception of Mingmen (gate of life)

CHAPMAN Ian, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA
Daoist Zhai Observance and Popular Festivals in Six Dynasties to Tang China

CHEN Jing, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, PRChina
Sensation of the Body: Studies of the Second Precept in the Female Golden Elixir

CHEN Yaoting, Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, PRChina
Daoism in Today's China;
Categories of Daoist Yangsheng Methods and its Principals

CHEN Xia, Institute of Daoism and Religious Culture, Sichuan University, Chengdu
Body in Daoism: An Ecological Interpretation

CHEUNG Kwong-Yue, Dept. of Chinese Lang. and Lit., The Chinese University of HongKong, VRC
The Relationship between the Daoist Health Regimen and the Peng Zu Chapter of the Chu Bamboo Manuscript Collections of the Shanghai Museum

Manfred DAHMER, Frankfurt, Germany
The Art of Qin - an Instrument of Self-cultivation;
The Art of Qin - Five Tones as a Wordless Representation of Dao - Poems as a Soundfull Description of Music

Catherine DESPEUX, INALCO, Paris, France
Cao Daochong - the Woman Commentator of the Daode Jing

DING Peiren, Institute of Religions, Sichuan University, Chengdu
A Review on The Complete Skill of Numinous Treasure

DUAN Yu-Ming, Institute of Religions, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PRChina
Daoist Moral Treaties and their Today's Significance

Ute ENGELHARDT, Ostasieninstitut, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
The Shangqing Patriarch Tao Hongjing and his impact on Chinese Herbal Medicine

Stephen ESKILDSEN, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
The Rigors and Perils of Daoist Meditation: A Study of Jindan zhengyan (Golden Elixir Signs of Proof)

Irmgard ENZINGER, Sinologist, Germany
Human Senses: Daoist „orifices“ (qiao) and Confucian „officers“ (guan)

Elisabeth FRIEDRICHS, Augsburg, Germany
Is Daoism an Ancestor of Psychosomatics? Victor von Weizsäcker, Marin Buber and Zhuang zi

Michael FRIEDRICHS, Augsburg, Germany
Brecht's Daoism

Heiner FRÜHAUF, National College of Natural Medicine, Portland, Oregon, USA
As above, So below: The Daoist Origins of Chinese Medicine

GAI Jianmin, Department of Philosophy, Institute of Religious Studies, Xiamen University, PRChina
A Tentative Study on the Daoist Idea of “San Yuan Contributing to Longevity”

Albert GALVANY, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Universtitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
The Role of Amputation in the Inner Chapter of the Zhuangzi

Joachim GENTZ, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Daoist Hermeneutics: Wang Jie’s (Yuan dynasty) Analytical Commentary with Graphics to the Wondrous Canon of the Eternal Purity and Tranquility as taught by the Supreme Venerable Sovereign (Taishang Laojun shuochang qingjing miaojing zuantu jiezhu)

GOU Bo, Institute of Religions, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PRChina
On the Secularization of Immortals during the Ming and Qing Period

Oliver GRASMÜCK, M.A., Universität Bremen, Germany
Mutual Mission? Western Christianity, Daoism and Cultural Exchange – Some Theoretical Reflections

GUO Wu, Institute of Religions, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PRChina
The Religious Practical Methods of Jing-ming Sect and Their Modern Significance

Adeline HERROU, Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, Université Paris, France
Daoist Monachism Today in China: Life among Self and Ritual Kinship

Dominique HERTZER, Germany
Beyond Yin and Yang - The Individual and Cosmic Dimension of the Spirit

Gisela HILDENBRAND, Universität Bonn, Germany
Imitation of Nature in Yangsheng practices

HSU Elisabeth, University of Oxford, Oxford, GB
Emotions in the Body: Outward Form (xing) and inward Qi in Han Medical Texts

HU Fuchen, Institute for Social Sciences, Beijing University
21st Century Strategies for New-Daoism: A Comprehensive Renewal of China’s Daoist Culture;
Disclosure of the Secret of Daoist Inner Alchemy: Classifications and Techniques

HUANG Yong, Department for Philosophy, Kutztown University, USA
The Ethics of Difference in the Zhuangzi

Patricia KARETZKY, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Development of the Image of the Dark Warrior

Paul KJELLBERG, Philosophy Department, Whittier College, USA
The End of Zhuangzi’s Skepticism

Livia KOHN, Department of Religious Studies, Boston University, USA
Daoist Cultivation: State of the Art;
Daoyin for Stress Relief

KROH Guje, Dept. of Medical History/Asian Studies, University of Munich, Germany
‘Knowledge‘ in the Thought of Ji Kang

LAW Yuen Mei (with CHAN Man Sing), City University of Hongkong, HK
Daoist Planetary Images in Yuan China

LI Jun, Abbot of Abbey Shaolong guan, Chongqing, PRChina
Overview of the Daoist Medical System, the Oldest in China

LI Gang, Institute of Religious Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PRChina
Modernization of Philosophy in Daoism and the Significance in the Society

LIU Xun, Center For Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, USA
Essential Secrets for Protecting Life: Daoist Inner Alchemic Meditative Techniques for Healing in Late Ming. The Case of Cao Heng

LIU Zhongyu, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, PRChina
The Cultural Perspective of Regimens in Daoism

Vivienne LO, Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, GB
The animation of the body in Early Chinese documents

MA Lin, Center for Logic, Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Netherlands
Heidegger and the Daodejing

Joshua R. MASON, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA
Microcosmic Images: Human Embodiment of the Original Source in Daoism and Christianism

Thomas MICHAEL, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Ecstatic Journeys in the Land of Chu: Comparing Jiuge Shamans, Lisao Poets, and Daoist Sages

James MILLER, Department of Religious Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
The Role of Daoism in China's Quest for a Sustainabel Future

Hans-Georg MOELLER, Department of Philosophy, Brock University, USA
Negative Ethics - Zhuangzi Revisited

Davin MOZINA, Harvard University, USA
Visually constituting a Cult to a Thunder Deity: The Structure and Ritual construction of the Daoist Altar in Contemporary Hunan Province

NESWALD Sara E., McGill University, East Asian Studies, Montreal, Canada
Inner Alchemy and Gender in Late Qing China

Lucia OBI, Sinologist, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
Daoist Aspects of Yao Ritual Manuscripts in the Bavarian State Library

Wolfgang OMMERBORN, University Bochum, Germany
The Role of the Ruler in Daoism

PAN Xianyi, Institute of Religions, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China
Cultivation and Aesthetics in Daoism

QING Xitai, Institute of Daoist Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PRChina
Welcome: Recent Research on Daoism in China;
On the Status of Daoism in the Traditional Chinese Culture and its Value in Modern Society

QIU Xinde, Baiyunguan, Beijing, PRChina
Man and nature – application of Daoist principles

Yoshinobu SAKADE, Kansai University, Japan
Daoism and Yangsheng in Japan;
A history of Daoist Talismen in China – by the End of the Tang Dynasty

Dennis SCHILLING, Institut für Sinologie, Universität München, Germany
The ethical significance of death in the Book of Zhuangzi

SCHMIDT Franz-Rudolph, Quierschied, Germany
The Textual History of the materia medica in the Han period: A system-theoretical reconsideration

SCHOLASTICA Sr. McQueen, Abbey Frauenworth of the Benedictines, Germany
Christian Monasticism and Benedictine Life

Wolfgang SCHWABE, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center of Humanities Research, National Science Council in Taiwan
Attitudes towards Change in the Zhuangzi

Edward SLINGERLAND, Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Taking Heaven Seriously. Normativity and Constraint in the Zhuangzi

SU Yi-Chang, Museum of Chinese Medicine, China Medical Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
The Relationship between Chinese Medical Theories in “Huang Di Nei Jing” and Daoist Yangsheng

TAN Dajiang, Wudangshan, PRChina
Daoism and Taijiquan;
Exercises from the Wudang Tradition

TANG Dachao, Institute of Religions, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PRChina
A Study on the trend of Integration of the Three Doctrines from the Southern Song Dynasty up to the Middle of the Ming Dynasty

TESSENOW Hermann, Institut f. Geschichte der Medizin, Ludwig-Maximilians Univ. München, Germany
Daoist Passages in the Medical Classic Huang Di Neijing (Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor)

TSAI Wei-Ding, Dep. of Philosophy, University of Munich, Germany
The Reception of Laozi in the 20th Century Chinese-speaking World – A Case Study of Hermeneutics

TSAI Pi-Ming, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
The Body as Dead Wood: Physical State and Body Techniques of the Experts in Zhuangzi

TSAI Yi-Jia, Dept. of Indigenous Cultures, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Desert and Spring: Reading of a Saint’s Body through an Inter-textual Encounter between Christian Ascetic Life and Daoist Utopien Vision

Sumiyo UMEKAWA, Japan
Sex for Better-Beings in Daoism and Buddhism – a Possible Allience between Chinese Daoism and Japanese Buddhism on the Matter of Religious Sexual Practices

Elena VALUSSI, Columbia College Chicago, USA
Nüdan texts and paratext: different interpretations of nüdan in historical perspective

Hans VAN ESS, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Welcome;
Notes on the Chapter following the Biography of Liu An in the Shiji

Griet VANKEERBERGHEN, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The Huainanzi on Lineages, Love, and Family Virtues

Aat VERVOORN, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia
Dead Ashes Encounter the Great Clod: Correct Understanding and Action in the Zhuangzi

WAN C. K. Maggie, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong, HK
Setting an Immortal Stage: the Daoist Subject Matters of Official Porcelains in the Jiajing court

WANG Robin R., Asian and Pacific Studies, Loyola Marymount Univ, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Art of Kun (Kun Dao; Earth, female): the embodied mind and metaphorical thought

WANG Zongyu, Department of Philosophy, Beijing University, PRChina
Confusian contribution to Quanzhen Daoism

XU Longfei, Department of Philosophy, Beijing University, PRChina
The Dao in the Religious Translation of a Sanskrit Term into Chinese and in the Philosophical Translation into German, respectively

YAU Chi-on, Dept. of Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Continuity and Changes of the Wong Tai Sin (Huang Daxian) belief in Guandong and Hong Kong

Lee H. YEARLEY, Evan-Wentz Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University, USA
A Radical Virtue Ethics in the Zhuangzi

YEN Hsueh-Cheng, Dept. of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Spontaneity in the Daoist Cultivation of the Body

YU Shuenn-Der; Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Meditation, Experience of the Body and Religious Ideals: A Case Study of a Zen Buddhist Group in Taiwan;
Spontaneity in the Daoist Cultivation of the Body

ZHANG Guangbao, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, PRChina
The Relation between Beggary, Alchemist Meditation, the Fight against the Demons of Sleep, Work and Cultivation in Quanzhen Daoism of the Jin and Yuan Period

ZHANG Qin, Institute of Daoism and Religious Culture, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PRChina
On nurturing the brain with Spermatic Essence, one important concept in the Arts of the Bedchamber

ZHANG Zehong, Institute of Religions, Sichuan University, PRChina
Daoist Rituals and Magical Arts in the Minorities of Southwest China

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