「佛教」的華語理解有著多種意涵，它可以限縮地指涉「佛陀的言教」(巴利語Buddhasāsana)，它更可以廣泛地理解為宗教信仰型態的「佛教」(英語Buddhism)。不論何者意涵，佛教作為一種成文宗教，它在古代與當代的世界流傳時，其教義體系、實踐技術乃至於倫理規範往往很難不透過權威性的聖典與固著化的文字型態來確立與完成。為此，問題在於：如何合宜地建構某種佛教釋經學，探索其任務並解析古代與現代遭逢的問題，藉此讓佛陀言教的意義對當代的經驗世界開放，即是一個重要的問題。這次講座即以此為線索進行初步思考。
 

講者
呂凱文教授 (南華大學宗教學研究所專任教授)
呂凱文教授，現職南華大學宗教學研究所專任教授。擔任過南華大學人文學院院長、終身學習學院院長、教學發展中心主任、宗教學研究所所長、巴利學研究中心主任、佛學研究中心主任等職。亦擔任過澳洲南天大學應用佛學研究所客座教授，以及台灣正念學學會創會理事長、台灣催眠學學會創會理事長。主要學術興趣為佛教哲學、宗教學、詮釋學、正念學、催眠學，以及巴利佛典翻譯實務。

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In 2009 I began to investigate this Yongle Northern Canon kept in the East Asian Library, Princeton University. I found many new materials. I decided to investigate the extant copies. Since then, I have visited more than 25 libraries, museums and temples in China, the United States and Poland. I found that each set of this Buddhist canon has its unique characteristics, such as Emperor’s decree, colophons, inscriptions, seal stamps, donors, readers and even the silk covers and papers.

The Buddhist canon became witnesses of the development of Buddhism in each temple and locality. Local devotees donated money to build the library, to repair the damaged scriptures, to raise fund for various activities with the canon. The records of these activities are probably noted in the colophons, inscriptions of the steles in the temples, local gazetteers, the travel notes, essays of local scholar-officials, and temple history. These were neglected in the past.

 

Speaker 
Prof. Darui Long (University of the West)
Dr. Darui Long earned his Ph.D. from Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 1996. Upon his graduation, he obtained a “Senior Fellowship” from Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University in 1996. The next year, he received a scholarship from Harvard-Yenching Institute. He received Princeton University Library Scholarship twice in 2009 and 2020 and visited Princeton University three times to examine its collections of Chinese Buddhist canon. He visited Jagiellonian University Library in Poland in three summer from 2016-2018 to investigate into its collection of Chinese Buddhist literature.

Dr. Long’s research interest is Chinese Buddhist canon, especially the Yongle Northern Canon constructed in Beijing from 1419-1440. He was editor-in-chief of the book Chinese Buddhist Canon in the Age of Printing, published by Routledge, UK, 2020. He is currently editor-in-chief of Chinese Buddhist Canon Research Newsletter initiated by Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Arizona, USA.

Dr. Long traveled widely in China, the US and Poland, visiting libraries, museums and temples. He has taken more than 40,000 photos worldwide for his research work. In 2017, he found one volume of Lotus Sutra in the Tangut (Xixia) language written on indigo paper with gold powder, Jagiellonian University Library. It is an invaluable treasure in the world and has aroused scholars’ great interest.

Currently, he is working on a concordant catalogue of Yongle Northern Canon with other editions of Chinese Buddhist canon. He has published many academic papers on Chinese Buddhist canon.

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China has produced about 20 editions of Buddhist canon since the Emperor of Song dynasty began to use printing technology to engrave the first Chinese Buddhist canon in 971. This huge project involved engraving more than 130,000 woodblocks and it took thirteen years to accomplish it. This became a rule. When the country returned to peace and stability, the rulers would summon eminent Buddhist monks and scholars to edit and collate a new edition of Chinese Buddhist canon. Thus, copies of these editions of Buddhist canon became witness of the legitimacy of the dynasty, the development of Buddhism, the religious belief, the relations between the imperial court and Buddhism, even customs of the local people.
 

Speaker
Prof. Darui Long (University of the West)

Dr. Darui Long earned his Ph.D. from Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 1996. Upon his graduation, he obtained a “Senior Fellowship” from Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University in 1996. The next year, he received a scholarship from Harvard-Yenching Institute. He received Princeton University Library Scholarship twice in 2009 and 2020 and visited Princeton University three times to examine its collections of Chinese Buddhist canon. He visited Jagiellonian University Library in Poland in three summer from 2016-2018 to investigate into its collection of Chinese Buddhist literature.

Dr. Long’s research interest is Chinese Buddhist canon, especially the Yongle Northern Canon constructed in Beijing from 1419-1440. He was editor-in-chief of the book Chinese Buddhist Canon in the Age of Printing, published by Routledge, UK, 2020. He is currently editor-in-chief of Chinese Buddhist Canon Research Newsletter initiated by Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Arizona, USA.

Dr. Long traveled widely in China, the US and Poland, visiting libraries, museums and temples. He has taken more than 40,000 photos worldwide for his research work. In 2017, he found one volume of Lotus Sutra in the Tangut (Xixia) language written on indigo paper with gold powder, Jagiellonian University Library. It is an invaluable treasure in the world and has aroused scholars’ great interest.

Currently, he is working on a concordant catalogue of Yongle Northern Canon with other editions of Chinese Buddhist canon. He has published many academic papers on Chinese Buddhist canon.

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Speaker 
Prof. Emily Wilcox
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, William & Mary, USA
Emily Wilcox is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at William & Mary and formerly Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Wilcox is the author or co-editor of five books: Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy (University of California Press, 2018, winner of the 2019 de la Torre Bueno Prize® from the Dance Studies Association); Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia (University of Michigan Press, 2020), 革命的身体：重新认识现当代中国舞蹈文化 (Fudan University Press, 2023); Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method (Routledge, 2024); and Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China (Modern Language Association, 2024). She is also co-creator of the University of Michigan Chinese Dance Collection. In fall 2023, Wilcox will be a member in residence in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where she is writing a book on international dance exchange in Mao-era China.

The centre of this exhibition, metal belt hooks, flourished in the Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties. There are two types of hooks in history: one is a weapon, and the other refers to the belt or garment hook. When the great Tang poet Li Bai (701-762 CE) chanted in his “Ode to a Knight” that “the man of Zhao wore an unadorned hat with simple tassel; his hook of Wu was shining brightly as frost and snow,” he was referring to the first type of hooks. These hooks of our exhibition from the De-Neng-Tang Collection are all belt hooks. Well decorated with gold and silver, they are no less shining than the snow-bright blade of a hooked sword. Their bodies, some of the iron, are the remains of great antiquity, hooking us up to the world of yesterday, to the age of dignity. From this lineage comes our exhibition of belt hooks that are “Cast for Dignity.”

With a focus on the belt hooks from the De-Neng-Tang Collection, this exhibition undertakes an untrodden path to showcase the casting and decoration of the belt hook in early China. The exhibition is divided into 8 sections, “The Tao of the Belt Hook”, “Cast in Gold and Silver”, “Inlaid with Gold and Silver”, “Made of Iron”, “Set with Jewels”, “Human and Beast”, “The Art of the Belt Hook” and “The Great Synthesis”. A glimpse into the hook is a view into a world full of all creatures, great and small. Starting from the perspective of craftsmanship, the exhibition attempts to reveal the panorama of the subject through meticulous investigations into its parts, hoping to inspire new interpretations of relevant archaeological data.

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耀州窯是五代、兩宋時期華北地區的代表性瓷器產地。耀州窯青瓷於五代受到越窯秘色瓷的影響開始發展，並在五代末至北宋初，燒造出優質的天青釉青瓷。這種天青釉青瓷極有可能對北宋後期汝窯青瓷產生重大影響。北宋初期，耀州窯開始生產橄欖綠青釉青瓷，成為中國北方的主要青瓷產區。本次講座將介紹五代、北宋耀州窯青瓷的變化以及對汝窯的影響。

 

講者
森達也教授（日本冲繩縣立藝術大學教授/副校長）
Prof. Mori Tatsuya (Vice President / Professor, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)

森達也，1961年生，金澤大學博士，早稻田大學碩士和學士。現任日本沖縄縣立藝術大學教授。歷任愛知縣陶磁資料館（今愛知縣陶磁美術館）學藝員、主任學藝員、學藝課長。策劃重要展覽如「唐三彩展洛陽の夢」、「海のシルクロードの出発點『福建』－沈沒船、貿易都市、陶磁器、茶文化－」、「日本人の愛した中國陶磁龍泉窯青磁展」等。研究領域為中國陶瓷史及其考古、日本陶瓷史、古代陶瓷貿易，研究涉及中國古代青釉瓷器的發展，汝窯、官窯、定窯、龍泉窯等窯場的生産、流通、生產特點，中國古代陶瓷外銷，伊斯蘭世界與中國陶瓷的關係等。 2013年獲「小山冨士夫紀念褒賞」。著有《中國青瓷の研究：編年と流通》。

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Professor James Morton from the Department of History has been awarded the Young Researcher Award 2022. This award recognises the incredible research contributions of young faculty members. Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy is the first major publication of Professor Morton. It provides a ground-breaking interdisciplinary study (first of its kind) of an important body of Greek-language manuscripts of Byzantine religious law produced in medieval Italy. Professor Morton’s dedication and continuous pursuit of knowledge embody the spirit of this award.

The Postgraduate Research Output Award 2022 has been claimed by Dr. Sun Yifan from the Department of Philosophy. He was recognised for his journal article Justice and Consensus: A Critical Investigation into the Practical Function of the Concept of Justice (正義與共識 – 對羅爾斯正義觀念實踐功能的批判性考察). Dr. Sun has published five PhD journals during his PhD years, with two in English and three in Chinese, which are widely read and cited by the global philosophy community. 

About the awards

The two awards were established in 2002 by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to recognise the research accomplishments of young faculty members and to encourage quality research.

The Young Researcher Award is open to all eligible full-time teachers at Assistant Professor rank or above and below the age of 45, while the Postgraduate Research Output Award is open to all eligible full-time or part-time postgraduate students at the University. The Dean of each Faculty is invited every year to nominate, for each award, one member who has produced the best research output. The Research Committee considers nominations received and recommends successful candidates for approval by the Administrative and Planning Committee.

Professor Murphy received his Ph.D. in English Literature in 1999 from University College Dublin. He has served at prestigious institutions including the American University of Beirut (1999-2000), NIE NTU Singapore (2000-2006), and most recently at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). At NTU, he held significant leadership roles such as Head of English and Director of the NTU/National Arts Council Asia Creative Writing Programme and Chair, School of Humanities. Over the years, Professor Murphy has authored or edited 14 books, served as guest editor for major journal issues, and contributed numerous book chapters and articles, all of which help position him as a leading international voice in his field.

His acclaimed work on contemporary Irish writers like Flann O’Brien, Dermot Healy, and Aidan Higgins has gained international attention both within academia and mainstream media. Notably, his co-edited volume The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien was shortlisted for the Flann O’Brien Society best book award in 2015, while featuring prominently in major news outlets such as The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and Irish Times among others.

Professor Murphy chose CUHK Arts as his next academic home base because of its international reputation and commitment to the humanities. He stated: “I have long been familiar with the impressive work produced by colleagues in the Faculty, particularly the Department of English. I keenly look forward to collaborating with colleagues in both the Faculty and department.”

As for his future endeavors within Department of English, Professor Murphy aims to contribute through research projects on contemporary literature, further enhance the development of international partnerships, and help strengthen the creative writing programme. Furthermore, he aims to broaden discussions concerning humanities’ role and diversity beyond academia.

Apart from his academic pursuits, Professor Murphy also enjoys nature conservation – a love nurtured by growing up amidst Ireland’s tranquil countryside. He eagerly awaits exploring CUHK’s beautiful campus, which is a famous haven for many varieties of flora and fauna.

The 5th Forum on University Chinese is organized by the Chinese Language Teaching Development Centre of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and co-organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Directors, frontline teachers, and scholars from various local universities are invited to brainstorm ideas, summarize experiences, and address future changes in the curriculum and assessments of Chinese language proficiency programmes. We are also delighted to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at The Chinese University of Hong Kong by holding this forum.