我们还在对话吗? 佛教和神经科学的现状

我们还在对话吗? 佛教和神经科学的现状

 

时间:3月23日下午2:30(温哥华)| 下午 5:30(纽约) | 晚上 9:30(伦敦) | 3 月 24 日上午 5:30(北京/台北)

Room 422, 485 Broadway, Harvard University

 

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概要: 自“心智与生命研究所(Mind and Life Institute)”在上世纪八十年代成立以来,佛教与神经科学的交融便成为了学术会议上的一大热题。神经科学家尤其关注佛教冥想中的脑活动,并进行了诸多实验——尤其是与“正念”相关的修行方法,比如“正念与减压”(Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction);除冥想外,时常被讨论的课题还包括“自我”与“非我”、佛教伦理、神经伦理学等。然而,由于大众媒体常倾向于强调佛教与神经科学间的共识、而忽视二者的矛盾,许多重要的讨论常常被搁置,使其局限于佛教思想与修行的个例。抽丝剥茧,迈过表层炒作,我们应该如何进行更全面与批判性的思考?哥伦比亚大学的佛雷(Bernard Faure)教授将就此课题展开深入探讨。

关于演讲者:
Bernard Faure is, since 2006, the Kao Professor of Japanese Religion in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Before that, he was the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Asian Literature from the Institut National des Langues Orientales Vivantes (Paris) in 1984. He specializes in the Chinese and Japanese Buddhist Traditions. He is the author of a number of books in English and French, Including The Rhetoric of ImmediacyChan Insights and OversightsThe Red ThreadThe Power of DenialVisions of Power, Unmasking Buddhism, and, more recently, the first two volumes of a series of works on the gods of medieval Japan, The Fluid Pantheon and Protectors and Predators, both published by the University of Hawai‘i Press. He has also recently finished a book in French, The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha—From Ancient India to the Modern Western Novels and Science Fiction.

与谈人:
Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her 2015 book Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press) focuses upon alternative early modernities and the conjunctions and disjunctures between religious and scientific epistemologies in Tibetan medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. Her other books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; and Women of Tibet.

She has also been writing on sex and gender in Buddhist monasticism, and on the current female ordination movement in Buddhism. Previous topics of her scholarship have included visionary revelation in Buddhism; lineage, memory, and authorship; the philosophy of experience; and autobiographical writing in Tibet. Her current writing concerns the phenomenology of living well with animals and related ethical issues and practices.

Gyatso was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2018. She was president of the International Association of Tibetan Studies from 2000 to 2006, and co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion from 2004 to 2010. She teaches lecture courses and advanced seminars on Buddhist history, ritual, and ideas, and on Tibetan literary practices and religious history.

 

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关于 “印证佛学系列讲座”:
印证佛学系列讲座于2021年9月启动,是由北京大学、牛津大学、剑桥大学、Inalco(法国国立东方语言与文明研究所)、普林斯顿大学、哈佛大学与英属哥伦比亚大学等多所大学合作开展的。该系列讲座是为了致敬慈济创始人证严上人及其导师印顺长老(1906–2005)而设立,旨在促进相关课题的佛学研究。

 

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