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LAI PAN CHIU. BRIEF DESCRIPTION. Lai Pan-chiu received his B.A. (Religious Studies, 1985) and M.Div. (Theology, 1987) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Ph.D. from King’s College London (Systematic Theology, 1991).
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Reconsidering Harmony in Diversity
- Human Being in Confucian Perspective
- Confucian Virtues For Dialogue
- Confucian Approach to Inter-Cultural / Inter-Religious Dialogue
- Resolving Conflict Through Dialogue
- Confucian Approach to Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- Concluding Remarks on Dialogue For Reconciliation
“Harmony in Diversity” (hé ér bù tóng) is a rather famous Confucian motto. It is widely regarded by many Chinese as a valuable ideal or guiding principle to be upheld in order to preserve a peaceful relation among the religions as well as that among nations. This lecture aims to go beyond this rather preliminary impression by exploring further the ...
It is my honour to be invited to give a presentation on dialogue in a world of conflict and violence, which is a topic particularly important to the contemporary world. Some decades ago, many scholars, especially sociologists in the western world, attempted to understanding the roles of religions in the contemporary world mainly in terms of secular...
With regard to the motto “harmony in diversity”, it is important to note that it is quoted from the Confucius’s saying “jūn zǐ hé ér bù tóng, xiǎo rén tóng ér bù hé” (君子和而不同, 小人同而不和) recorded in The Analects (13:23), which has many English translations. 1. D. C. Lau translates the whole verse as “The Master said, ‘The gentleman agrees with others w...
The Confucian understanding of human being differs from the mainstream of modern western understanding by emphasizing on relationality, which is embodied in (1) its emphasis on the social relationship among human persons, and (2) its understanding of the relationship between body and heart/mind (xīn心). Regarding social relationship, Confucianism ad...
The Confucian relational understanding of human person is reflected in its understanding of moral reasoning. It is noted that Confucius actually gave three different answers to the question what is benevolence (rén仁). The first one is “love people” (rén zhě ài rén仁者愛人), and the second “Do not do to others what you would not desire others to do to y...
For Confucianism, human rationality is embedded in human body and thus affected by the bodily emotion and moral disposition. Besides, human rationality is also tremendously shaped by the concrete social relationship as well. However, this does not necessarily imply a sort of nihilistic relativism or relativistic nihilism that excludes the possibili...
This approach to dialogue is not merely a theory reconstructed by scholars, but also an approach practiced by ordinary people and has contributed to the maintenance of social harmony. There was a relevant research project conducted by a small group of social scientists. In order to summarize the findings of their field observations on how conflicts...
In order to address the question about dialogue in a post-conflictual context with violence, especially the dialogue among the partners already involved in conflict and violence, we may have to consider first the more fundamental issues concerning reconciliation as well as the related issues such as apology and forgiveness. According to Samuel P. O...
When considering the Confucian approach to reconciliation, perhaps one may recall the aforementioned Confucian concept of shù (恕). In modern Chinese, the word shù (恕) is often used to form the expressions meaning “forgiveness”, including “kuān shù” (寬恕) and “ráo shù” (饒恕). However, as it is mentioned earlier, the meaning of shù (恕), instead of bein...
May 28, 2024 · Hanjiang Lai, Pan Yan, Xiangbo Shu, Yunchao Wei, Shuicheng Yan: Instance-Aware Hashing for Multi-Label Image Retrieval. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 25 (6): 2469-2479 (2016)
Prof. LAI Pan Chiu. 賴品超 教授. BA, MDiv (CUHK) ; PhD (Lond.) Professor. PUBLICATIONS. Selected Journal Articles / Book Chapters in English. “Chinese Religions and the History of Salvation: A Theological Perspective.” Ching Feng 40.1 (March 1997), 15-40.
Lai Pan-Chiu. 02 May 2019. Abstract: “Harmony in Diversity” (hé ér bù tóng) is a rather famous Confucian motto. It is widely regarded by many Chinese as a valuable ideal or guiding principle to be upheld in order to preserve peaceful relations among the religions as well as among nations.
2023. Articles 1–20. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - Cited by 469 - radiation detection - semiconductor devices - machine learning - medical imaging - material synthesis.
Prof. LAI Pan Chiu. 賴品超 教授. BA, MDiv (CUHK) ; PhD (Lond.) Professor. OTHER EXPERIENCE. Administrative Experience at CUHK. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, August 2018- August 2019. Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, 2004- July 2018. Chairman, Department of Cultural & Religious Studies, 2004-2008. Chairman, Department of Religion, 2002-2004.
