演講資訊

時間：108年5月18（星期六）14:00至17:00

地點：國立政治大學綜合院館北棟270304教室

講題：When Nāgas Prevail Over Arid Pasturelands: A Study of Multifaceted Roles of Tibetan Rainmaking Rituals 
             in Pre-modern Chinese Inner Asia

講者：金漢雄（Kim Hanung）（漢學研究中心獎助博士後研究人員／美國哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系博士）

簡介：

“When Nāgas Prevail Over Arid Pasturelands: A Study of Multifaceted Roles of Tibetan Rainmaking Rituals in Pre-modern Chinese Inner Asia.”

Drought has been an ever-present environmental hazard in Inner Asia and rainmaking has been its countermeasure. In such a culturally diverse region as Inner Asia, coping with the natural disaster followed the line of people’s belief systems, and the collision between different attempts to avert disaster is an aspect of cultural interaction and competition between civilizations, such as Tibetan, Chinese and Islam. Its significance notwithstanding, there has thus far been no attempt to contextualize this ritual in broader transnational settings. My study will employ both a philological analysis of ritual manuals and an anthropological approach to the praxis of rituals to address the origins and transformations of rainmaking for diverse civilizations. It will also cover the discussion of “orthopraxy” of rituals by looking into how and why certain forms of the ritual became dominant and the authority behind them, and eventually how this orthopraxy functioned vis-à-vis cultural competition. 

那伽號令乾燥草原的時候：對藏傳佛教祈雨儀式在近世中國内亞上多方面作用的研究

乾旱一直是亞洲內陸地區的一種環境危害，而祈雨活動則是其對策之一。在内亞這樣一個多元文化的地區，應對自然灾害遵循了人們的信仰宗教體系，不同的抗灾努力之間的衝突顯示印藏、華夏或伊斯蘭等文明之間文化互動和競爭的多面性。儘管其意義重大，迄今為止還沒有嘗試將這種宗教儀式置於更廣泛的跨民族環境中而討論。為照明在內亞的多元文明舞台上的祈雨儀軌的起源和轉變，本研究首先採用語文學的方法来對藏文祈雨儀式手冊做規範性的分析，然后利用人類學的方法來對同種儀式的表演做實際行的檢查。該研究還將涵蓋對宗教儀式的“正統實踐（orthopraxy）”的討論，通過研究某些形式的儀式如何和為什麼成為主導以及背後的權威，最終探討這種“正統實踐”在文化競爭中發揮的作用。

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