APA Webinar ~ Suśruta's classic Compendium of Medicine

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 18:30 – 20:00 BST

Online Event

APA Presents - Suśruta's classic Compendium of Medicine: Recovering a medical classic as it was 1000 years ago by Professor Dominik Wujastyk

The horizontal image above is one leaf from 288 surviving folios of a manuscript of The Compendium of Sushruta" (Suśrutasaṃhitā) that are preserved in a library in Kathmandu, Nepal. This manuscript was copied out by a Nepalese scribe in 878 CE, over a thousand years ago. It preserves a much older version of Suśruta's fascinating text than any of the printed editions that circulate today. Studying this ancient Nepalese manuscript allows us to travel back in time and read this classic of Ayurveda in the version that circulated in Nepal and North India a millennium ago and before many parts of the text were altered. This talk will describe a Canadian university project to transcribe, translate and study this manuscript. The project website is sushrutaproject.org.

Professor Dominik Wujastyk DPhil, MA, BSc

Professor Dominik Wujastyk is the Singhmar Professor of Ancient Indian History at the University of Alberta, Canada. His background is in Sanskrit and Classical Indian studies and he has held research and teaching positions at the Wellcome Centre in London, University College London, the University of Vienna and visiting positions at Harvard, Austin Texas, Helsinki, Zurich and elsewhere. His book The Roots of Ayurveda appeared in 2003 and many of his published articles can be downloaded from ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk.

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Dominik Wujastyk, DPhil, MA, BSc.