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142201 VO Balancing Act Ayurveda: The Traditional Medicine of South Asia in the Past and Present (2025W)
5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikawissenschaften, Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismusk
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Details
Language: German
Examination dates
- Monday 26.01.2026 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Tuesday 03.03.2026 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Wednesday 22.04.2026 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 06.10. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 13.10. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 20.10. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 27.10. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 03.11. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 10.11. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 17.11. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 24.11. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 01.12. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 15.12. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 12.01. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
- Monday 19.01. 15:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Schriftliche Prüfung. Erster Prüfungstermin: Mo 26.1.2026, 15:30.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Beantwortung von 4 von 5 Fragen bei der schriftlichen Prüfung
Examination topics
Eine Liste der möglichen Prüfungsfragen wird im Moodle-Kurs zur Verfügung gestellt.
Reading list
Einführende Literatur:
• Jolly, Julius. Medicin. Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde, 3.10. Strassburg: Trübner, 1901. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k736134. (English translation: Indian Medicine: Translated from German and Supplemented with Notes by C. G. Kashikar; with a Foreword by J. Filliozat. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von C. G. Kashikar. Poona: C. G. Kashikar, 1951. http://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.8567.)
• Kutumbiah, P. Ancient Indian Medicine. Revised Edition. Chennai: Oriental Longman, 1969.
• Maas, Philipp A. „Indian Medicine and Ayurveda“. In The Cambridge History of Science, herausgegeben von Alexander Jones und Liba Taub, 1: Ancient Science:532–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 7. Februar 2019. Pre-print: https://www.academia.edu/10632151/Indian_Medicine_and_Ayurveda
• Wujastyk, Dagmar, und Frederick M. Smith, Hrsg. Modern and Global Ayurveda. Pluralism and Paradigms. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.
• Wujastyk, Dominik. The Roots of Ayurveda: Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings. Reissue edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
• Wujastyk, Dominik. „The Science of Medicine“. In The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism, herausgegeben von Gavin Flood, 393–409. Blackwell Companions to Religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. https://www.academia.edu/492288/The_science_of_medicine.
• Zimmermann, Francis. „Gentle Purge: The Flower Power of Āyurveda“. In Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge, herausgegeben von Charles Leslie und Allan Young, 209–23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
• Zysk, Kenneth G. Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India. Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Zysk, Kenneth. „New Age Ayurveda“. Traditional South Asian Medicine 6 (2001): 10–26.
• Jolly, Julius. Medicin. Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde, 3.10. Strassburg: Trübner, 1901. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k736134. (English translation: Indian Medicine: Translated from German and Supplemented with Notes by C. G. Kashikar; with a Foreword by J. Filliozat. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von C. G. Kashikar. Poona: C. G. Kashikar, 1951. http://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.8567.)
• Kutumbiah, P. Ancient Indian Medicine. Revised Edition. Chennai: Oriental Longman, 1969.
• Maas, Philipp A. „Indian Medicine and Ayurveda“. In The Cambridge History of Science, herausgegeben von Alexander Jones und Liba Taub, 1: Ancient Science:532–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 7. Februar 2019. Pre-print: https://www.academia.edu/10632151/Indian_Medicine_and_Ayurveda
• Wujastyk, Dagmar, und Frederick M. Smith, Hrsg. Modern and Global Ayurveda. Pluralism and Paradigms. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.
• Wujastyk, Dominik. The Roots of Ayurveda: Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings. Reissue edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
• Wujastyk, Dominik. „The Science of Medicine“. In The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism, herausgegeben von Gavin Flood, 393–409. Blackwell Companions to Religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. https://www.academia.edu/492288/The_science_of_medicine.
• Zimmermann, Francis. „Gentle Purge: The Flower Power of Āyurveda“. In Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge, herausgegeben von Charles Leslie und Allan Young, 209–23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
• Zysk, Kenneth G. Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India. Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Zysk, Kenneth. „New Age Ayurveda“. Traditional South Asian Medicine 6 (2001): 10–26.
Association in the course directory
BA9, EC146/M2
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