1. Symposium at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of World Religions
September 6th, 2012
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Welcome Addresses
Prof. Zhuo Xinping 卓新平 (Director) and Prof. Zhou Qi 周齊 (Institute of World Religions; KGF Advisory Board Member) -
The Cultural Impact and History of Mount Wutai
Dr. Douglas Gildow (Princeton University)
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Calendars and Mantic Arts at Dunhuang - Introduction to Excavations and Manuscripts at Dunhuang
Prof. Deng Wenkuan 鄧文寬
2. Seminar at Mount Wutai
September 7th, 2012
Influencing your Fate through Traveling to Mount Wutai – The Pilgrimage Report of Chang Shangying 張尚英 (around 1100 CE)
3. A Buddhist Monk Practicing Divination – Visiting Ven. Mengcan 夢參法師 and his Temple Pushou Si 普壽寺
September 9th, 2012
4. Symposium at the Zhouyi Center
September 10th, 2012
- Buddhism and Mantic Practices - A Short Overview about Ongoing Research at the IKGF
Esther-Maria Guggenmos (IKGF) -
Who wrote the Cantong qi 參同契?
Fabrizio Pregadio 馮玄英 (IKGF Visiting Fellow) - Johannes Kepler as Astrologer 作为占星学家的约翰内斯•开普勒
Katrin Bauer (IKGF) - Condemnations of Divination among the Latin Fathers 拉丁语基督教会教父对占卜的谴责
Erik Niblaeus (IKGF)
5. Symposium at the Department for Philosophy
September 10th, 2012
- Prophets False and True: Gazing into the Future in the Medieval Latin West 真假先知：拉丁语西方世界对未来的展望
Klaus Herbers (IKGF) - Inter-Religious Dialogues and the Shaping of Philosophical Rationality in the Latin Middle Ages 拉丁语中世纪的宗教间对话以及哲学理性的形成
Alexander Fidora (ICREA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; IKGF Visiting Fellow) - Awakening a Sense of Wonder – The Formation and Scholarly Reception of the “Secretum Secretorum” in the Middle Ages “对神奇感受的觉醒”－《秘密之秘密》一书在中世纪的构成及学者对其的解读
Hans-Christian Lehner (IKGF) - Pursuing the Millennium: From the Chained Dragon of Revelation to the Third Reich 执行“千年”：从《启示录》中被束缚的龙到第三帝国
Julia Eva Wannenmacher (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, IKGF Visiting Fellow)
6. Exchange with Professor Chen Jian 陳堅 from the Department of Philosophy, Shandong University, Jinan: The Relation between Buddhism and the Yijing
September 11th, 2012
7. Symposium at Dunhuang
September 14th and 17th, 2012
- Depicting Divination – Selected Caves from the Dunhuang Murals: Mogao Grottoes and Yulin Grottoes
Prof. Dr. Chen Juxia 陈菊霞 - Deciphering the Ruixiang – Analysis of Depictions of Figures of Divinatory Power
Dr. Zhang Xiaogang 張小剛 - Seminar with Members of the Dunhuang Academy: Mountai Wutai at Dunhuang – The Depiction of Mount Wutai and its meaning for the transcultural flow of divinatory practices across Asia. Cave 323.
