與一神教的人神關係不同，佛教的聖凡關係除了超越二元對立的彼此會通外，還在聖凡對接方面創設了多種具有中介性質的神聖象徵，其中比較典型的體現應該是中國佛教的觀音感應信仰。這種信仰藉助各種神聖象徵建構眾生與觀音的關係，形成偶像感應、聖號感應、經典感應、道場感應、咒語感應等信仰形態，從而既使眾生與觀音之間的對接通道多樣化，也使觀音的神聖性資源處於多元分割狀態，極大地增強了觀音信仰的便捷性、瀰漫性和世俗性，由此激發而成的文化現象，如造像藝術的發達、經典的普及、名山的興起以及名號和咒語的流行等，則成為中國佛教整體建構和發展機制中不可或缺的重大元素。

 

講者
李利安教授 
西北大學佛教研究所所長
李利安，歷史學博士，西北大學中國宗教史專業二級教授。西北大學佛教研究所所長，玄奘研究院院長，兼任中國社會科學院佛教研究中心特邀研究員，臺灣人間佛教研究院榮譽教授以及浙江佛學院、中國佛學院普陀山學院、鑒真佛學院的研究生導師。主要從事佛教信仰史研究，出版《觀音信仰的淵源與傳播》《四大菩薩與民間信仰》《南北朝佛教編年》等著作10部；在《哲學研究》《世界宗教研究》《中國哲學史》等多種海內外報刊發表論文200餘篇；主持及完成國家社科基金重點項目《宋元明清時期中國漢地觀音信仰研究》等多個國家社科基金項目。

無須報名，直接登錄ZOOM，ID: 910 6024 1050（無須密碼）

講座將通過對佛教梵唄的歷史、梵唄的文體，以及梵唄音樂特色等角度，解析梵唄的歷史，以及所含的藝術內涵與音樂特色。講座中將用實例講解漢傳佛教梵唄的各種腔系，以及梵唄的同曲變體特徵等內容。
 

講者
狄其安教授
上海大學音樂學院教授
狄其安教授，上海大學音樂學院教授，佛光山人間佛教研究院研究員、江蘇鹽城佛教梵唄研究會顧問。從事漢傳佛教梵唄、作曲理論的教學與研究，尤其是對佛教梵唄的研究頗具成績。出版《江浙滬梵唄》、《中國漢傳佛教常用梵唄》、《中國漢傳佛「瑜伽焰口」法會唱本》、《東渡寺梵唄》、《寶華山隆昌寺律腔梵唄》等著作。主持上海教委創新重點專案「江、浙、滬地區佛教音樂（梵唄）收集與研究」； 2016年度教育部人文社會科學研究專案「中國漢傳佛教『瑜伽焰口』法會音樂的記譜與研究」；2019年度上海市教委員冷門絕學專案「漢傳佛教禪腔、律腔、上江腔三大腔系梵唄的收集記譜與研究」；2020年度國家社會科學基金專案「漢傳佛教『水陸法會』梵唄集成的記錄與研究」。

講座無須報名，ZOOM ID: 910 6024 1050（無須密碼）

The talk will be started with a dialogue with the “significant others,” Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas. In 2007, Charles Taylor published A Secular Age. In 2010, Jürgen Habermas published An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age. As hindsight, it is not an incident for them to address the same concern on the issue of the secular in the beginning of new millennium. Although the philosophical stances of Taylor and Habermas are different, they nevertheless meditated on the similar cultural and political situation they have faced in Europe and North America, that is, the loss of some sort of religious significance and its cultural effect. Among other implications, their thinking would be properly understood without referring to the resurgence of religions in past decades, including the religious/nonreligious conflict or violence around the whole world. Turning to East Asia, should we be bothered by the same issue of secularity with which Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas are deeply concerned? Isn’t it a common sense nowadays to say that the dichotomy between the sacred and the secular can only be found in the Judeo-Christian world? If the dichotomy as such is absent in East Asian traditions, should we take it seriously?

Speaker
Prof. Lin Chen-kuo (林鎮國教授)
Professor Emeritus of the Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University (國立政治大學哲學系榮譽教授)
 

Speaker 
Professor Cristina Dondi
Cristina Dondi is Professor of Early European Book Heritage, and Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She is also the Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries. During the period 2014-2019 she was the Principal Investigator of the 15cBOOKTRADE Project, funded by the European Research Council. 
Her research focuses on the history of printing and the booktrade in 15th century Europe, using surviving books as primary historical sources to understand the economic and social impact of the printing revolution on European society. Also, on the reconstruction of dispersed book collections and the transmission of texts in print.https://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/CristinaDondi

Join us for this 90-minute session, during which Prof. James St. Andre of the Department of Translation and Prof. Tongle Sun of the Department of English will share their strategies for giving effective virtual and in-person research talks and poster presentations. The session will consist of a 60 minute presentation by Profs. St. Andre and Sun, followed by a 30 minute Q & A. All are welcome!

In this talk I present the concept “biological geo-body” to offer a new way to understand how military, cultural, and scientific forces in Southeast Asia strategically map a population’s identity in relation to colonial and post-colonial histories. It builds on Thai historian Thongchai Winichakul’s concept “geo-body” (1997), which refers to the mapping of territory with bounded sovereignty and discourses of national identity as the “We-self” versus the other. Drawing on my research on national genome projects, I show how the mapping of geo-body has evolved into the biological forces of population genomics. I compare two cases, the Vietnamese Genome Project, which is funded by a Vietnamese private conglomerate, and the Peranakan Genome Project in Singapore, to elucidate how the results from population genomic projects in Vietnam and Singapore reflect existing political and cultural narratives, in particular the varying notions of ‘Chinese-ness’. The cases illustrate the different ways in which the actors strategically differentiate and negotiate the ‘bio geo-body’ of the Vietnamese and the Peranakan (more particularly, descendants of Southern Chinese settlers intermixed with local Malays) in relation to Chinese identity and nationalism, thereby revealing how genomics is intertwined with local and regional histories, culture and politics.

 

Speaker 
Miss Tien-Dung HA (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Stanford University)
Tien-Dung HA is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Stanford University whose research interests include anthropology of science and nation building in the context of Southeast Asia. She has also been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship by the Canadian government. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals of BioSocieties and Big Data & Society. Prior to arriving at Stanford, she received a MA in Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University.

講者
狄其安教授
上海大學音樂學院教授
狄其安教授，上海大學音樂學院教授，佛光山人間佛教研究院研究員、江蘇鹽城佛教梵唄研究會顧問。從事漢傳佛教梵唄、作曲理論的教學與研究，尤其是對佛教梵唄的研究頗具成績。出版《江浙滬梵唄》、《中國漢傳佛教常用梵唄》、《中國漢傳佛「瑜伽焰口」法會唱本》、《東渡寺梵唄》、《寶華山隆昌寺律腔梵唄》等著作。主持上海教委創新重點專案「江、浙、滬地區佛教音樂（梵唄）收集與研究」； 2016年度教育部人文社會科學研究專案「中國漢傳佛教『瑜伽焰口』法會音樂的記譜與研究」；2019年度上海市教委員冷門絕學專案「漢傳佛教禪腔、律腔、上江腔三大腔系梵唄的收集記譜與研究」；2020年度國家社會科學基金專案「漢傳佛教『水陸法會』梵唄集成的記錄與研究」。

1936年底，作為「海德格的孩子們」之一的卡爾・洛維特（Karl Löwith，1897–1973）因希特勒上台迫害猶太人而流亡日本，在航行途中靠岸基隆，走訪臺北。當時殖民地臺北帝大的哲學科助手洪耀勳（1903–1986），受到京都學派接觸早期海德格實存哲學的啓蒙，對早期海德格哲學及其《康德與形上學問題》已有所回應。可惜二人錯失了見面的機緣。及至戰後，在我大學四年級時購讀牟宗三先生的《智的直覺與中國哲學》（1971），始逐漸認識到華文哲學界對海德格哲學的判釋。七十年代，牟、唐先後在我讀碩士班時來台講學，對台灣哲學界影響甚鉅。時隔半個世紀之後，從東亞海域與島嶼的離散視角，將時間推回到一九三十年代的歐洲（德國）與東亞（日本、殖民地台灣與香港），重新敘寫曾航經這座島嶼的洛維特、洪耀勳、牟宗三和唐君毅如何回應早期海德格的哲學，特別是《康德與形而上學問題》，並在這敘事背景下追問：人是什麼？如何安居？
 

講者
林鎮國教授
國立政治大學哲學系榮譽教授

林鎮國，國立政治大學哲學系榮譽教授，曾任台灣哲學學會理事長、科技部哲學學門召集人、荷蘭萊登大學（1999–2000）、香港中文大學（2005）和美國哈佛大學（2012）客座教授，並長期主持多項整合型培育計劃與研究計劃。著有《空性與現代性：從京都學派、新儒家到多音的佛教詮釋學》（臺北：立緒，1999年）、《辯證的行旅》（臺北：立緒，2002年）、《空性與方法：跨文化佛教哲學十四講》（臺北：政大出版社，2012年），合編A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism (University of Hamburg Press, 2014)、《近世東亞〈觀所緣緣論〉珍稀注釋選輯》（高雄：佛光文化，2018年）等書及中、英、日文論文多篇。

講者
妙光法師
星云大师首席英文翻译、佛光山人間佛教研究院副院長、《佛光大辭典》英譯總召集人
妙光法師現任《佛光大辭典》英譯總召集人、佛光山人間佛教研究院副院長。妙光法師是星雲大師於世界弘法的隨侍英文翻譯，足跡遍及全球，曾在大師與教宗本篤十六世、馬來西亞兩任總理馬哈迪、納吉等世界宗教及國家領袖等人見面時擔任翻譯。同時著力於佛典翻譯、星雲大師全集、人間佛教研究專書等文獻的筆譯工作，旨在應用電腦輔助翻譯系統(CAT)、深度學習演算法(Deep Learning)與線上協作翻譯平台(Online Collaboration)等工具，加強佛典翻譯的品質與效率。

ZOOM及微信視頻號同步直播
ZOOM ID：910 6024 1050（無須密碼）

Completed in 2007, the project was launched by the mosque’s namesake, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE, who had a vision to establish an Islamic monument that would unite the cultural diversity across the Islamic world with the universal aesthetics of architecture and art. Thus the design of the mosque combines Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman styles as well as modern techniques, personifying the concept of beauty in diversity.

As a testament to Sheikh Zayed’s dedication to promoting tolerance, the Grand Mosque is not only a place of worship but also a message of love and peace to the world.

Speaker
Prof. James Frankel, Director, Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture
His Excellency Shaikh Saoud Ali Almualla (Consul General, UAE Consulate)
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque tour guide

(Open to CUHK faculty, students & members of the public)

The tour will be conducted by live guides, focusing on the history and architecture of the mosque, with an opportunity for Q&A towards the end of the session.