Recent cross-disciplinary work on quantifying historical dynamics has made major contributions to scholarship.However,efforts to specify relationships between scale and information-processing always run a risk of shoe...Recent cross-disciplinary work on quantifying historical dynamics has made major contributions to scholarship.However,efforts to specify relationships between scale and information-processing always run a risk of shoehorning messy realities into overly rigid categories.In the case of the first-millennium BCE“Axial Age”in the Old World,networks of collective computing were structured more by cultural systems than by polities,and to understand the relationships between political scale and collective computational abilities,scholars need categories flexible enough to clarify the complementarities between political and cultural systems.展开更多
Religious music is an inevitable and important topic when exploring the significance of the“new”or“deep”dimension of religion or spirituality.Traditional Chinese culture influenced Chinese Buddhist chanting practi...Religious music is an inevitable and important topic when exploring the significance of the“new”or“deep”dimension of religion or spirituality.Traditional Chinese culture influenced Chinese Buddhist chanting practices,developing special melodies,languages,and meaning,and establishing special mind and body practice system spanning thousands of years.Advances in music therapy,meditation,and vocal research give the Chinese Buddhist chanting mind and body practice system enough theoretical support to facilitate the construction of the discipline in the modern era.This paper adopts the scientific approach to tracing and analyzing the origins of the body and mind system in Chinese Buddhist chanting practice and reviews how the system benefits the mind and body and modern society in general.This paper also examines the issues confronting the standard and development of special chanting skills in Chinese Buddhist music in the modern era.展开更多
文摘Recent cross-disciplinary work on quantifying historical dynamics has made major contributions to scholarship.However,efforts to specify relationships between scale and information-processing always run a risk of shoehorning messy realities into overly rigid categories.In the case of the first-millennium BCE“Axial Age”in the Old World,networks of collective computing were structured more by cultural systems than by polities,and to understand the relationships between political scale and collective computational abilities,scholars need categories flexible enough to clarify the complementarities between political and cultural systems.
文摘Religious music is an inevitable and important topic when exploring the significance of the“new”or“deep”dimension of religion or spirituality.Traditional Chinese culture influenced Chinese Buddhist chanting practices,developing special melodies,languages,and meaning,and establishing special mind and body practice system spanning thousands of years.Advances in music therapy,meditation,and vocal research give the Chinese Buddhist chanting mind and body practice system enough theoretical support to facilitate the construction of the discipline in the modern era.This paper adopts the scientific approach to tracing and analyzing the origins of the body and mind system in Chinese Buddhist chanting practice and reviews how the system benefits the mind and body and modern society in general.This paper also examines the issues confronting the standard and development of special chanting skills in Chinese Buddhist music in the modern era.
