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Vice president to attend Vatican event
Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) is scheduled to visit the Vatican next month to attend the canonization of six beatified individuals, or “blesseds,” a source said. The Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) reported on the planned visit on Friday, one ...FULL STORY
Some Catholics in Taiwan and Hong Kong upbeat on Vatican-Beijing deal
Worshipers at Masses in Hong Kong and Taiwan yesterday were largely upbeat about a new deal between China...FULL STORYExpatriates rally in NYC for UN membership
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Hong Kong-Guangzhou bullet train service launched
CONVENIENCE TRUMPS CRITICS: Passengers at the new high-speed rail station in Hong Kong were happy with...FULL STORYTyphoon Trami could affect Taiwan starting on Friday
A tropical storm that formed over the Pacific Ocean strengthened into a typhoon named Trami yesterday...FULL STORY
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Chinese Practice 鏡花水月 (jing4 hua1 shui3 yue4) flowers in the mirror, moon in the water 在佛教中的概念「色」──梵文為「rupa」，英文為「form」（形式）──指的是地（或固體）、火（或熱）、水（或凝聚力）、風（或運動）等四種基本元素中的一種或多種的存在。所有物質的或有形式的東西，必然訴諸色（視覺）、香（嗅覺）、味（味覺）、觸（觸覺）等至少一種感官。 鳩摩羅什（西元三四四～四一三年）的父親是一位佛教僧侶，來自現今克什米爾，後移居現中國新疆省的龜茲國，其母親則是龜茲國的公主。鳩摩羅什後來定居長安，成為將原為梵文的佛經譯介到中文世界的推手，聲名遠播。慧遠（西元三三四～四一六年）是在中國創立淨土宗的佛教祖師。《遠什大乘要義問答》（又稱《大乘大義章》或《鳩摩羅什法師大義》），為鳩摩羅什和慧遠兩人之間討論大乘佛教的問答錄。 其中，鳩摩羅什闡述了「非色」，也就是沒有形式的東西：「如鏡中像，水中月，見如有色，而無觸等，則非色也」（就像鏡中的影像，或水中﹝反映﹞的月亮；這些東西看似有形，你無法碰觸它們，所以它們沒有形式。「鏡像水月」這說法即由此而來，這也是現今成語「鏡花水月」的原始形式，用來描述虛幻或無實體的東西。成語「鏡花水月」也是李汝珍一八二七年的神魔小說《鏡花緣》書名的靈感來源。 在英文中，所謂透過「rose-colored...FULL STORY
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