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SUMMARY:“The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a dynamic infrastructure for contemporary Han Chinese participation in Tibetan Buddhist monastic contexts
DESCRIPTION:BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES\n“The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a dynamic infrastructure for contemporary Han Chinese participation in Tibetan Buddhist monastic contexts\nABSTRACTDuring 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 the contemporary era\, however\, massively improved transport infrastructures mean that Tibetan sacred landscapes\, monastery spaces and ritual gatherings are now important settings for contemporary Han Chinese involvement in Tibetan Buddhism. This talk explores a participatory infrastructure that has played an outsize role in facilitating\, focusing\, and fostering the visits of Han Chinese Buddhists to Tibetan monastic contexts in the past three decades: namely\, the “Dharma assembly.” Drawing on fieldwork findings from the 2010s\, I will discuss how Dharma assemblies – large scale multi-day ritual events – have been creatively and flexibly deployed to meet and mediate the needs of Tibetan lamas\, their monasteries\, and Chinese followers in a period of burgeoning cross-cultural religious encounter.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERCatherine Hardie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation\, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research lies at the intersection of the Tibetan and Chinese cultural worlds with a particular focus on contemporary Han Chinese involvement in Tibetan Buddhism. She completed her doctoral studies in anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2019 with the thesis titled “Tibetan Buddhist Spiritual Capital in Contemporary China.” She is currently working on her first book project as well as extending her research into Tibetan Buddhism in China with a GRF-funded project looking at the platform-based dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism on WeChat and Weibo. Her publication and translation activity to date has centred on Larung Gar\, a preeminent Tibetan Buddhist institution and religious settlement in Eastern Tibet. A forthcoming book chapter titled “Innovations in Lay Buddhist Education in New Era China’s Sinophone Tibetan Buddhist Milieu” examines Larung Gar’s impactful and innovative digitally-mediated Buddhist outreach in the Han Chinese world during the culminating decade of China’s reform era (2006-2015).\n\nORGANIZERThe event is organized by the CRF Project “Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road [BRINFAITH]” (RGC CRF HKU C7052-18G)\, which is hosted by the ASIAR – Asian Religious Connections Research Cluster in HKIHSS.
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/the-dharma-assembly-exploring-a-dynamic-infrastructure-for-contemporary-han-chinese-participation-in-tibetan-buddhist-monastic-contexts/
LOCATION:Via Zoom (Registration required)
CATEGORIES:BRINFAITH,Religion and Empire Public Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Magic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in Cities
DESCRIPTION:BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES\nMagic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in Cities\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				ABSTRACTThis 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 the fast life rhythms of adherents who are scattered across the city and no longer share a unified dwelling space. The speaker will examine the spirit medium\, the core shrine members\, and occasional petitioners\, and show how affective and psychological connections have become increasingly important in binding urban adherents to deities. Distinct from Western religious individualism premised on individual preference and freedom of will\, the contemporary popular religion in Taiwan is ingrained with kinship intimacy.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERWei-Ping Lin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cambridge University. She is a Professor at National Taiwan University. She was affiliated with the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2005-06 and 2017-18\, and with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University in 2012-13. Her interests include religion (including topics related to material culture\, spirit mediums\, and urban religious transformation)\, kinship\, and imagination. She is the author of Materializing Magic Power: Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2015)\, and Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan (Cambridge University Press). She also edited Mediating Religion: Music\, Image\, Object and New Media (Taiwan University Press\, 2018; in Chinese) and Ambience Contaminated: Sensory Experiences and the Boundary of Religion (Taiwan University Press\, forthcoming; in Chinese).\n\nORGANIZERThe event is organized by the CRF Project “Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road [BRINFAITH]” (RGC CRF HKU C7052-18G)\, which is hosted by the ASIAR – Asian Religious Connections Research Cluster in HKIHSS.
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/magic-power-reconfigured-chinese-popular-religion-in-cities/
LOCATION:Via Zoom (Registration required)
CATEGORIES:BRINFAITH,Religion and Empire Public Lecture Series
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