Kenneth Gregory Zysk

Kenneth Gregory Zysk

Professor, emeritus


  1. 2024
  2. Published

    The knowledge of the crow (vāyasavidyā): Gārgīyajyotiṣa. Aṅga 19

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2024, Suhṛdayasaṃhitā. : A Compendium of Studies on South Asian Culture, Philosophy, and Religion Dedicated to Dominik Wujastyk. Maas, P. (ed.). Helle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, p. 13-62 (Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis, Vol. 33).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  3. 2023
  4. Published

    An Underlying Divinatory Structure Common to Bharata and Semonides

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2023, Castalia: Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, Mythology, and Poetics. Massetti, L. (ed.). Leiden/Boston: Brill, p. 256-274 (Leiden Studies in Indo-European, Vol. 23).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Animal Omens in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature: The call of the crow, the howl of the jackal, and the knowledge of the wagtail

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2023, In: The Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University . 26, p. 125-166

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. 2022
  7. Published
  8. Published

    "Note on "Dosas by the numbers'"

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 22 Jan 2022, 3 p.

    Research output: Other contributionBlog postResearch

  9. Published

    Mesopotamian and Indian bird omens

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2022, In: Studia Orientalia Electronic. 10, 1, p. 11-25

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Review of Hartmut Buescher. Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts. The Pandit Collection.

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2022, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 142, 1, p. 249-249 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewpeer-review

  11. Published

    Sanskrit Medical Scholasticism II: Jajjaṭa’s Nirantarapadavyākhyā and Other Commentaries on the Carakasaṃhitā, Cikitsāsthāna 2.2

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory & Yamashita, T., 2022, In: eJournal of Indian Medicine. 13, 1, p. 1-68 68 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    The Marks of the Buddha, Revisited

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2022, Rethinking Buddhism. : Tex, Context, Contestation. Singh, A. (ed.). Delhi: Primus Books. An imprint of Ratna Sagar P. Ltd. , p. 250-265

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Three Versions of Crow Omens

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2022, In: History of Science in South Asia. 10, p. 235-246 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  14. 2021
  15. Published

    FROM SYMPOSION TO GOṢṬHĪ: THE ADAPTATION OF A GREEK SOCIAL CUSTOM IN ANCIENT INDIA

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 12 Sep 2021, In: Studia Orientalia Electronic. 9, 1, p. 83-111 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2021, 2nd Revised edition ed. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House. 288 p. (Indian Medical and Ayurvedic Heritage).

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  17. Published

    Doṣas by the numbers: Buddhist contributions to the origins of the Tridoṣa-theory in early Indian Medical Literature with comparisons to early Greek theories of the humours

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2021, In: History of Science in South Asia. 9, 1, p. 1-29 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  18. 2020
  19. Published

    Why Study Asian Medicine

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2020, In: Asian Medicine. 15, p. 312-314 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  20. 2019
  21. Published

    Mesopotamian Physiognomic Omens in India

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2019, In: Zeitschrift der Deutsche Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft. 169, 2, p. 379-394 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Mesopotamian and Indian Physiognomy

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2019, Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world. Johnson, J. C. & Stavu, A. (eds.). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, p. 41-60 20 p. (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, Vol. 10).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Varahamihira's Physiognomic Omens in the Garudapurana

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2019, In: History of Science in South Asia. 7, p. 72-81 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  24. 2018
  25. Published

    From Local to Global: Papers in Ancient History and Culture

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory (ed.), 2018, New Delhi: Buddhist World Press. 578 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthology

  26. Published

    Greek and Indian Physiognomics

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2018, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 138, 2, p. 313-325 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Sanskrit Medical Scholasticism: Jajjaṭa’s Nirantarapadavyākhyā and Other Commentaries on the Carakasaṃhitā, Cikitsāsthāna 2.1

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory & Yamashita, T., 2018, In: eJournal of Indian Medicine. 10, 1, p. 1-113 114 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    The Human Character Types in Ancient India. A Study in the Transmission of Knowledge between Genres in Early Sanskrit Literature

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2018, In: Indo-Iranian Journal. 61, 3, p. 218-261

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  29. 2017
  30. Published

    Garga and Early Astral Science: Text Critical Remarks Based on the Chapter Entitled (Purusa)strilaksana

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2017, In: History of Science in South Asia. 5, 1, p. 155-163 10 p., 2.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  31. 2016
  32. Published

    The Indian System of Human Marks 2 Vols

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2016, Leiden: Brill. 954 p. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Vol. Vol 15).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  33. 2015
  34. Published

    The History of Indology in Denmark

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2015, History of Indological Studies. Karttunen, K. (ed.). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, p. 175-186 12 p. (Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference; No. 2, Vol. 11).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingArticle in proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  35. 2013
  36. Published

    An Indologist Looks at Siddha Medicine in Tamilnadu

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2013, Medical Texts and Manuscripts in Indian Cultural History: Manohar. Wujastyk, D., Cerulli, A. M. & Preisendanz, K. (eds.). New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, p. 181-194 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Jajjata's Nirantarapadavyakhya on the Carakasamhita, Cikitsasthana 2.1.1-4ab

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory & Yamashita, T., 2013, Medical Texts and Manuscripts in Indian Cultural History. Wujastyk, D., Cerulli, A. & Preisendanz, K. (eds.). New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, p. 221-242 22 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  38. 2012
  39. Published

    The use of manuscript catalogues as sources of regional intellectual history in India's early modern period

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, Jul 2012, Aspects of manuscript culture in South India. Rath, S. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, p. 253-287, plates xxvi-xxvii 35 p. (Brill's Indological Library, Vol. 40).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  40. 2011
  41. Published

    "Kama" in Knut A. Jacobsen

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2011, Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Two: Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts. Jacobsen, K. A. (ed.). 1 ed. Leiden: Brill, Vol. 2. p. 772-777. 6 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Carsten Niebuhr og Rasmus Rask i Indien: Sådan kom indologien til Danmark

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2011, Tværkultur 2010. Om Forskere på Rejse: 250-Året for Carsten Niebuhrs rejse til Det Lykkelige Arabien. Hede-Andersen, A., Pedersen, C. V. & D. M. S. (eds.). København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 19-26 7 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  43. Published

    Energy-Based Bodywork Therapy: Shiatsu and Ayurveda

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2011, Massage Therapy: Principles and Practice. Salvo, S. G. (ed.). 4 ed. St. Louis Missouri: W. B. Saunders Company, p. 314-345 31 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Traditional Medicine in India: Ayurveda and Siddha

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2011, Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Micozzi, M. S. (ed.). Fourth ed. St. Louis, Missouri: W. B. Saunders Company, p. 455-467 13 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  45. 2010
  46. Published

    Citations in Jajjata's Nirantarapadavyakhya

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2010, In: eJournal of Indian Medicine. 3, p. 69-99 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  47. Published

    Das, Rahul Peter (Hrsg): Traditional South Asian Medicine. Vol. 8. Reichert Verlag, 2008

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2010, In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. 105, 1, p. 104-106 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  48. Published

    Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2010, In: Acta Orientiala. 71, p. 342-346 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  49. 2009
  50. Published

    Animal usage in the Sanskrit Traditions of Lovemaking, Lawful Conjugal Love, and Medicine

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2009, Penser, dire et représenter l'animal dans le monde indien. Balbir, N. & Pinault, G-J. (eds.). Paris: Honoré Champion, Vol. 345. p. 287-304 18 p. (Bibliothéque de l' Écoles des Hautes Études Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Vol. 345).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  51. Published

    Puran. upakatha evam Bharatiya cikistisavidyar vrahmanayan: agodrader sastramate Atmasthakarn

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2009, Vharater patabhumite cikitsavijaner itihas: samksopta parylocana. Bhattacharya, J. (ed.). Calcutta: Avabhas, p. 36-52 16 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  52. Published
  53. Published

    Sanskrit commentaries on the Carakasamhita with special reference to Jajjata's Nirantarapadavyakhya

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2009, In: eJournal of Indian Medicine. 2, 3, p. 83-99 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  54. Published

    Some reflections on Siddha Medicine in Tamilnadu

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2009, In: Indian Journal of History of Science. 44, 2, p. 199-208 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  55. 2008
  56. Published

    Lathi Nak Phrot. Lae Kan Yiow Ya Nai India Boran: Rabop Kan Phaet Nai Phuth Aram

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand: Department of Public Health. 410 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  57. Published

    Frederick M. Smith. The Self-Possessed. Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2008, In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 76, p. 246-49

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  58. Published

    Siddha Medicine in Tamil Nadu

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2008, København: Nationalmuseet. 24 p. (Tranquebar Initiativets Skriftserie; No. 4).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  59. 2007
  60. Published

    "Health Tourism" in Kerala

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 1 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  61. Published

    Akattiya and the origins of Siddha medicine in Tamilnadu

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  62. Published

    Alchemy in Citta medicine

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  63. Published

    Citta-Surgery: Varman-therapy

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  64. Published

    First report from India

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 1 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  65. Published

    Fortune-telling in Pondicherry

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  66. Published

    The bodily winds in ancient India revisited

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 13, p. 105-115

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  67. Published

    The principles of disease and diagnosis in Citta Medicine

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  68. Published

    The prinicples of treatment in Citta medicine

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  69. Published

    Traditional South Indian medicine surrounding Tranquebar

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  70. Published

    Traditionel sydindisk lægekunst i området omkring Tranquebar

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2007, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. 2 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  71. 2006
  72. Published

    Traditional Ayurveda

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2006, Fundamentals of Complementary and Integrative Medicine. Micozzi, M. S. (ed.). Third Edition ed. St. Louis, Mo., USA: W. B. Saunders Company, p. 494-507

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterEducation

  73. 2005
  74. Published

    Indian traditions of physiognomy: Preliminary Remarks

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2005, Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in honour of Gerald James Larson. Jacobsen, K. A. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, p. 425-443

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  75. Published

    Potency therapy in classical Indian medicine

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2005, In: Asian Medicine - Tradition and Modernity. 1, 1, p. 101-118

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  76. 2004
  77. Published

    Medicine

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2004, Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, Vol. 2. p. 518-520

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEncyclopedia chapterResearch

  78. 2002
  79. Published

    Classical Ayurveda and its Modern Practice: Study and Fieldwork of Ayurveda in India and in America

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2002, Ayurveda at the Crossroads of Care and Cure. Lisboa: Centro de História de Atém-Mar Universidade Nova de Lisboa, p. 218-228

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  80. Published

    Conjugal Love in India: Ratis'astra and Ratiramana. Text, translation and notes

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2002, Leiden: Brill. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series; No. 1).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  81. Published

    G.J. Meulenbeld, A history of Indian Medical Literature. 3 vols. in 5 pts. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999-2002

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2002, In: Indo-Iranian Journal. 45, 4, p. 358-361

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  82. Published

    Medical Sanskrit:  an exercise in translating and interpreting Sanskrit medical literature

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2002, In: Orientalia Suecana. LI-LII, p. 491-502

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  83. 2001
  84. Published

    Asceticism and healing in ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist monastery (Chinese translation)

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2001, Taibei: Guoli Zhongguo Yiyao Yasjiusuo. 311 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  85. Published

    Jinadasa Liyanaratne, Buddhism and Traditional Medicine in Sri Lanka. Dalugama, Kelaniya: Kelaniya University, 1999

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2001, In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 64, 1, p. 133-134

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  86. Published

    New Age Ayurveda or What Happens to Indian medicine When it Comes to America

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2001, In: Traditional South Asian Medicine. 6, p. 10-26

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  87. Published

    Rahul P. Das and Ronald E. Emmerick, comp. and ed., "Vagbhata's Astangahrdayasmhita". Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 1998

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2001, In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 11, 1, p. 90-91

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  88. 2000
  89. Published

    Did ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion?

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 2000, Contagion: perspectives from pre-modern societies. Conrad, L. I. (ed.). Aldershot, England: Ashgate, p. 79-95

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  90. 1999
  91. Published

    Mythology and the brahmanization of Indian medicine: transforming heterodoxy into orthodoxy

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1999, Categorisation and Interpretation: indological and comparative studies from an international indological meeting at the Department of Comparative Philology, Göteborg University. Josephson, F. (ed.). Göteborg: Adoptionscentrum, p. 125-45

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  92. 1998
  93. Published

    Asceticism and healing in ancient India

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1998, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 200 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  94. 1997
  95. Published

    A working glossary of Pali plant names.

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1997, Researches in Ayurveda: Past and Present. Jaipur, India: Publication Scheme, p. 35-38

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  96. Published

    Asceticism and healing in ancient India: medicine in the Buddhist monastery

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1997, revised edition ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 200 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  97. Published

    Astangasamgraha, Kalpasthana IV: translation and notes

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1997, In: Journal of the European Ayurvedic Society. 5, p. 25-45

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  98. Published

    Medicine in the Veda: Religious Healing in the Veda

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1997, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 311 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  99. 1996
  100. Published

    Traditional Ayurveda

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1996, Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Micozzi, M. S. (ed.). New York and London: Churchill livingston, p. 233-242

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterEducation

  101. 1993
  102. Published

    Asceticism and healing in anciest India: medicine in the Buddhist monastery

    Zysk, Kenneth Gregory, 1993, Tokyo: JIKU-Shuppan. 250 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

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