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概要： 自“心智與生命研究所（Mind and Life Institute）”在上世紀八十年代成立以來，佛教與神經科學的交融便成為了學術會議上的一大熱題。神經科學家尤其關注佛教冥想中的腦活動，並進行了諸多實驗——尤其是與“正念”相關的修行方法，比如“正念與減壓”（Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction）；除冥想外，時常被討論的課題還包括“自我”與“非我”、佛教倫理、神經倫理學等。然而，由於大眾媒體常傾向於強調佛教與神經科學間的共識、而忽視二者的矛盾，許多重要的討論常常被擱置，使其局限於佛教思想與修行的個例。抽絲剝繭，邁過表層炒作，我們應該如何進行更全面與批判性的思考？哥倫比亞大學的佛雷（Bernard Faure）教授將就此課題展開深入探討。
關於演講者：
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 Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, The Red Thread, The Power of Denial, Visions 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.
與談人：
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.
活動原網頁哈佛大學中國藝術實驗室（Harvard CAMLab）
關於 “印證佛學系列講座”：
印證佛學系列講座於2021年9月啓動，是由北京大學、牛津大學、劍橋大學、Inalco（法國國立東方語言與文明研究所）、普林斯頓大學、哈佛大學與英屬哥倫比亞大學等多所大學合作開展的。該系列講座是為了致敬慈濟創始人證嚴上人及其導師印順長老（1906–2005）而設立，旨在促進相關課題的佛學研究。
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