佛经中的鹦鹉

1.鹦鹉是古今中外深受人们欢迎的一种飞禽,其或五彩绚烂,或洁白如雪的羽毛,以及善作人言的才能,都使人对之喜爱有加。而鹦鹉的受欢迎也与佛教有着密切的因缘,佛教与佛经的流传赋予了鹦鹉更多的神奇与灵性。 佛教在说法的时候,经常通过生动的譬喻和故事,来深入浅出、形象化地阐明深奥、抽象的道理。我们现在有很多故事其实就是来源于佛教,如盲人摸象、庸医治驼背等。这些譬喻与故事在阐扬佛教义理的同时,也     

唐代贬谪诗人对佛教茶文化的影响

茶在唐代贬谪诗人与佛教的交往中发挥着重要的作用。唐代贬谪诗人提升着佛教茶文化的品味。唐代贬谪诗人对佛教茶文化的影响体现在三个方面:首先,作为政治人物与文化名流,他们对佛教茶文化的参与行为本身就是对佛教茶文化品味与影响力的最佳品牌宣扬;其次,他们对消费高端与基层的茶文化内容进行相互的传播;第三,他们的诗文给佛教茶文化蓄积了持久的影响力和感召力。     

关于当前佛教界几个思想理论问题的反思（上）

改革开放以来,随着党的宗教信仰自由政策的贯彻落实,我国大陆的佛教事业有了很大的发展,与社会各界的交往日益增多,社会影响也日益扩大。正因如此,佛教界搞好自身建设的任务也更为迫切,其中包括佛教思想理论建设和文化建设。近现代以来,由于西学东渐,基督教文化的迅速传播,由于科学的昌明和唯物主义思潮的影响,中国汉传佛教发生了前所未有的嬗变,其表现可以说比比皆是。其中在思想理论上,最重要的是提出了“人间佛教”(或人生佛教)的思想,其它还出现了“佛教是文化”、“佛教是科学”、“佛教是哲学”、“佛教是教育”等等提法。此外,唐代以…     

敦煌壁画中的唐代佛教乐舞艺术北大核心

唐代是中国舞蹈艺术发展的鼎盛时期。从唐代敦煌壁画中的舞蹈形象,可以发现当时佛教乐舞艺术的状况:舞蹈形式与佛教思想巧妙结合;注重舞姿的灵动与韵律;将宗教乐舞与世俗民间乐舞融合;是多元文化融合的产物。     

论唐代宰相对佛教的认知

唐代佛教宗派林立,大师辈出,寺院众多,崇佛在社会上蔚然成风,是我国古代佛教最为发达的时期之一。然而由于社会地位、学识修养以及人生阅历的不同,每个人对佛教的认知并不完全相同,甚至大相径庭。其中,作为朝廷最为重要官员的宰相对佛教的认知也是千差万别,各不相同。通过对唐代部分宰相对佛教认知的研究,探析唐代宰相是如何认知佛教以及这种认知的特点,能够更好地了解唐代宰相的思想。     

唐代文人与佛教关系探究

唐代文人因诵读佛典、与高僧交往、游览佛寺,与佛教结下不解之缘.仕途上的挫折,加深了一部分唐代文人对佛教的认知与信奉,但不同的文人所信仰的佛教宗派并不相同;另一部分文人认为佛教威胁朝廷的统治,因而强烈反对佛教.在信奉佛教的唐代文人思想中,儒家思想仍然是其主导思想,佛教思想是和儒家、道家思想有机地融合在一起.唐代文人对佛教...     

唐代五台山佛教史(续三)

佛教宗派唐代五台山佛教宗派是继隋代佛教组织异说的趋势发展来的。隋代时候,五台山佛教就有了一批潜心研究佛学、擅长宣讲经论的法师。入唐之后,又受到唐代诸帝的大力扶植和护法宰相王缙、裴休的精心培育。遂使五台山佛教的经济、文化相当发达,高僧大德人材辈出,著名宗师云集台山,开辟道场,讲经说法,弘扬本宗思想,建立本宗基地。于是,唐代五台山佛教就有了唯识宗、律宗、华严宗、净土宗、密宗、天台宗和禅宗等中国佛教宗派。     

图文并茂 怡目慧心——评《中国佛教尊像故事》

两千余年来,佛教文化已经渗透到中国文化的方方面面。佛教文化与儒学、道教文化并称为中国三大主流文化,其中佛教文化的影响尤为广泛。然而,由于历史的原因,“中国佛教艺术,在近代基本上是空白,多为临摹复制古代的佛教艺术,具有独立创造性的太少”。(古干语)。就佛教尊像的造像而言,也同样欠系统、完整,尤其是在图与文的紧密结合以及佛教艺术发掘的深度上更为欠缺。现在,一部规模为十卷本,集百余万文字、千余幅图像的《中国佛教尊像故事》填补了这一空白,该丛书第一卷《佛陀尊像故事》(原名《佛陀尊像图谱》),已于2003年岁尾由宗教文化出版…     

丝绸之路与宁夏石窟文化

石窟文化是丝绸之路的产物,是佛教东传后生成的宗教文化繁荣的形象化载体。须弥山石窟开凿于北魏至唐代,地当丝绸之路东段北道必经之处,是全国十大石窟之一,其佛教艺术对我国石窟佛教造像有过直接影响,也影响到日本佛教的传入。石空寺石窟同样缘起于丝绸之路,是唐代以前开凿的石窟,道教、佛教、藏传佛教造像皆备,西域、中亚、非洲人物造像栩栩如生,是丝绸之路多元文化在宁夏的独特体现。     

唐代五台山佛教史

唐朝是中国封建社会的极盛时期,也是中国佛教的鼎盛阶段,还是五台山佛教的黄金时代。这是因为,唐朝时候,国家统一,政治稳定,经济繁荣,文化发达,“佛教在三教中的社会影响最大”(任继愈《唐代三教中的佛教》,《五台山研究》总第14期第6页),而五台山又是与印度灵鹫山“争峻”(《全唐文》卷17《三藏圣教序》)的佛教圣地。五台山是文殊菩萨演化之区,为全国著名的灵山圣境。唐代二十个皇帝中,除武宗反佛外,大都尊崇佛教,扶植利用佛教。其中,太宗、高宗、武后、中宗、睿宗、玄宗、肃宗、代宗、德宗、宪宗。     

Omnipotence in the transference and in the countertransference

The concept of omnipotence refers to a primitive fantasy, a mechanism of defense, and a pathological psychic structure. Omnipotence and its derivative defensive operation, omnipotent control, are highly prevalent in borderline personality organization. Three clinical vignettes illustrate these mechanisms in the treatment of patients with borderline, narcissistic, and obsessive personality disorders, respectively. These vignettes illustrate the transference developments when omnipotence and omnipotence control are dominant, and the therapeutic approach to these conditions.     

The patient in the family and the family in the patient

The notion that the family is “the unit of care” for family doctors has been enigmatic and controversial. Yet systems theory and the biopsychosocial model that results when it is imported into medicine make the family system an indispensable and important component of family medicine. The challenge, therefore, is to provide a coherent, plausible account of the role of the family in family practice. Through an extended case presentation and commentary, we elaborate two views of the family in family medicine — treating the patient in the family and treating the family in the patient — and defend both as appropriate foci for care by family doctors. The practical problem that arises when the family is introduced into health care is deciding when to concentrate on the family system. The moral problems that arise concern how extensively doctors may become involved in the personal lives of their patients and families. The patient-centered clinical method provides a strategy for handling both problems. Thus, making the family a focus of care in family medicine can be justified on theoretical, practical, and moral grounds.     

Information in the Universe and in the Organism

There is a branch of modern medicine that relies on information rather than on biochemical substances to maintain health and cure disease. Known as information medicine, it offers an important complement to the dominant biochemical approach of mainstream medicine. This note offers a few reflections on the potentials of information medicine in reference to what is currently known regarding the role of information in the universe, and in the living organism.     

Disequilibrium in the mind, disharmony in the body

Although it is generally acknowledged that experiences of frustration, confusion, and anxiety are embodied phenomena, very little is known about how these processes modulate presumably unconscious, but constantly present, subtle bodily movement. We addressed this problem by tracking the low-level dynamics of body movement, using 1/f noise, pink noise, or "fractal scaling", during naturalistic experiences of affect in two studies involving deep learning and effortful problem-solving. Our results indicate that body movement fluctuations of individuals experiencing cognitive equilibrium was characteristic of correlated pink noise, but there was a whitening of the signal when participants experienced states that are diagnostic of cognitive distress such as anxiety, confusion, and frustration. We orient our findings within theories that emphasise the embodied nature of cognition and affect and with perspectives that view affective and cognitive processes as emergent products of a self-organising dynamical system (the brain) that is inextricably coupled to the body.     

Disequilibrium in the mind,disharmony in the body

Although it is generally acknowledged that experiences of frustration, confusion, and anxiety are embodied phenomena, very little is known about how these processes modulate presumably unconscious, but constantly present, subtle bodily movement. We addressed this problem by tracking the low-level dynamics of body movement, using 1/f noise, pink noise, or “fractal scaling”, during naturalistic experiences of affect in two studies involving deep learning and effortful problem-solving. Our results indicate that body movement fluctuations of individuals experiencing cognitive equilibrium was characteristic of correlated pink noise, but there was a whitening of the signal when participants experienced states that are diagnostic of cognitive distress such as anxiety, confusion, and frustration. We orient our findings within theories that emphasise the embodied nature of cognition and affect and with perspectives that view affective and cognitive processes as emergent products of a self-organising dynamical system (the brain) that is inextricably coupled to the body.     

明代伏牛山佛教派系考

历史上对伏牛山地区的佛教记载较散,资料较详的是在明代。当时来山修行的僧人很多,但是到现在为止还没有人对伏牛山的佛教进行过研究,笔者根据掌握的禅宗史料提出这时伏牛山佛教已经有了明显的禅宗派系特征,在这里传教修行的僧人,主要是元代禅宗断桥伦一支的浙江天目山高峰原妙及其弟子中峰明本一系,其中受四川禅宗无际明悟禅师一派的影响很大,早期来山的僧人大多数都是无际明悟的弟子与后人,可以说成立了无际伏牛山禅派一系。     

孕育中的旅游伦理学--近年来西方国家旅游伦理研究述评

旅行和旅游是一项历史悠久的人类活动,旅游活动中的伦理问题的存在也和旅游发展的历史一样久远.二战以后,"大众旅游"经过半个多世纪的高速发展,对自然环境和社会文化的负面影响已经凸显出来,因此,旅游研究便开始关注旅游发展伦理问题;与此同时,应用伦理学研究也开始从不同的角度关注旅游发展这一新领域.