10:30-12:30 [Session 1] Body, Mind and Eastern Religions (Chair: Ioannis Gaitanidis)

• 10:30-11:00 James Flowers (Kyung Hee University)

The Convergence of Religion and Medicine in Japan-Ruled Korea

• 11:00-11:30 Francisco Figueroa Medina (Kyoto University)

Advancing the Spirit of the Mahāyāna: A “New Zazen Group Movement” in Postwar Japan

• 11:30-12:00 Lobsang Tshultrim Gnon Na (Kyoto University)

The Esoteric Aspects of Tranquil Abiding Meditation: Perspectives of Indian and Tibetan Scholars and Their Connections to Contemporary Western Mindfulness Practices

• 12:00-12:30 Xu Hanyin (University of Malaya)

Tubuh and Mysticism: The Intersection of Body and Esotericism in Malay Culture

12:30-13:15   Break

13:15-14:15 [Session 2] The Imagined East and the Outsider’s Gaze (Chair: Sangyun Han)

• 13:15-13:45 Haocheng Wang (Lanzhou University)

Non-Dual and Freedom: The Construction of the Eliade System of “Tantrism” (CANCELLED)

• 13:45-14:15 Riya U. Poojary (Manipal Academy of Higher Education)

Framing the East: Marco Polo’s Representation of India within the European Tradition of ‘Othering’ and Orientalism

14:15-14:30   Break 

14:30-17:00 [Symposium] Occult Times, Occult Places: (Re)Imagined Histories in Modern Japan (Chair: Orion Klautau)

• 14:30-14:35 Preliminary remarks 
• 14:35-15:00 Dell J. Rose (University of Amsterdam)

The Secret “Churches” of Mongolia: The Swedenborgian “Far East” Discovered in Meiji Japan

• 15:00-15:25 Orion Klautau (Tohoku University)

Envisioning “Occult” History: The Category of Gishi in Modern Japan

• 15:25-15:50 Jon Morris (Daito Bunka University)

Japan’s Mummies: The Sokushinbutsu in Post-War Occulture

• 15:50-16:10 Response by Ozawa Minoru (Rikkyo University)
• 16:10-17:00 Q&A and discussion