A Half-day Retreat @ HKU + Lung Fu Mountain: Demystifying Mindfulness from the perspectives of Psychology and Buddhism We spend most of our time learning about the outside world and try to change small parts of it, but most of us know very little about our own inner mindscape, and even less about how to […]
Reimagining Capital | International learning Series Spiritual Capital in Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism: A Sociological Perspective on Capacity Building The sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu is one of the main sources for conceptualising spiritual capital. In this framework, spiritual capital would need to be understood through its expression in embodied habits or dispositions (habitus), which […]
The New Mindscape Spiritual Training Programme Congratulations on completing CCHU 9014, Spirituality, Religion and Social Change! During the course, you had the opportunity to reflect on many spiritual questions; you learned about different ideas and concepts; and you were exposed to different spiritual practices and social issues. You might have a lot of questions about how […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Hidden Treasures of the Silk Road—An Ontological Shift in Thinking of Things ABSTRACTThis talk focuses on an ontological shift in thinking of small-sized Silk Road talismans and amulets. The true value of them has been neglected by previous studies. Among them, the Ordos Bronze Crosses, problematically identified as […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Old Roads, Religious Mobility, and Paradigms of Long-Distance Transmission: Epigraphic and Petroglyphic Complexes in a Transit Zone between Eurasian Frontiers ABSTRACTGraffiti inscriptions and rock drawings mark an ancient network of capillary routes that connected Central Asian Silk Routes with major South Asian arteries for religious mobility and trade. […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES "Without ritual, there would be no ethnic culture": Religion and changing Chinese diasporic identity in Vietnam ABSTRACTIn this talk, I will present a total of four case studies to analyse the transformations and hidden discourses of ethnic Chinese (người Hoa 華人) rituals dedicated to public gods. Vietnam’s ethnic […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES “The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a dynamic infrastructure for contemporary Han Chinese participation in Tibetan Buddhist monastic contexts ABSTRACTDuring the first half of the twentieth century, all but a handful of intrepid Han Chinese practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism undertook the long and difficult journey to the Tibetan plateau. In […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Magic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in CitiesABSTRACTThis talk analyzes how divine magic power is reconfigured in the urban setting. The speaker will discuss how a spirit medium, who moved from the countryside in Taiwan to an urban area, refashioned the elements of village religion to cope with […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Iran and BRI: A Cultural Perspective of Strategic Cooperation ABSTRACTIran and China’s relationship is following a long tradition of exchanges that can be traced back to ancient times. Certainly, when studying the long tradition of Iran and China, we can perceive that the Silk Road was not only […]
BRINFAITH | Green BRI Greening the Belt and Road: Risk Mitigation, Dispute Prevention and Resolution Keynote Speech: Green Investment Principles Along the Belt and Road About the SpeakerDr. Ma Jun is currently the Chairman of the Green Finance Committee, China Society for Finance and Banking, and the former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr ABSTRACTThis talk presents some of the preliminary ideas and findings of Dr. Ha Guangtian’s ongoing project which examines the role of multi-racial, multi-religious, and multi-lingual sailors and slaves in facilitating Muslim trans-regional trade in medieval maritime Asia. […]
BRINFAITH | ESG BRI Green Finance Forum: Bringing local values into the ESG framework in Asia Opening Remark:Dr Ma Jun, Co-chairman, G-20 Sustainable Finance Study Group; Chairman, Hong Kong Green Finance Association Keynote Speeches The changing definitions of ESG investment in Asia Speaker: Anthony Cheung, Managing Director, ESG at Polymer Capital; Convenor of Green Finance, […]