寂靜的快門｜The Little Steps of a Western Buddhist Abbot

【 尼可拉斯．佛里蘭 x 臺大晨曦社 】
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寂靜的快門
The Little Steps of a Western Buddhist Abbot
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｜時間 Date and Time
11/13（一） pm7:30-9:30
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｜地點 Location
博雅教學館102教室
R102 Liberal Education Building
校內地圖/MAP：https://goo.gl/QPq86v
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｜講者 Speaker
Nicholas Vreeland（印度惹對寺住持，the Abbot of Rato Dratsang Monastery）

尼可拉斯·佛里蘭，出生在1954年的瑞士日內瓦。他出生於外交官家庭，父母都是美國人，祖母黛安娜·佛里蘭（Diana Vreeland）曾是知名時尚雜誌Vogue的主編，他13歲開始學攝影，本該是活躍紐約時尚圈的攝影名人，卻剃度出家，學習藏傳佛教13年考取格西，並成為第一位在藏傳寺院擔任主持的西方人。

Nicholas Vreeland is the Abbot of Rato Dratsang, one of a few important Tibetan Government monasteries under the patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Vreeland is also Director of The Tibet Center, the oldest Tibetan Buddhist Center in New York City. He is a Buddhist monk and holds a Geshe degree, the equivalent of a PhD.

Born in Geneva Switzerland to American parents, Vreeland was educated in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, after which he pursued a career in photography. In the late sixties and early seventies, Vreeland worked as an assistant to Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, and studied film at New York University. In 1977 he met Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, founder of The Tibet Center, and became a monk in 1985.

Vreeland is the editor of the books, An Open Heart, a New York Times best seller, and the 2011 release, A Profound Mind, both authored by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is also founder of Photos for Rato, a series of fund-raisers that have been held in France, Italy, Germany, India, and the U.S., which underwrote, through the sale of his photographs, a large part of the construction of Rato Monastery in India.

On April 20, 2012 His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed Geshe Vreeland as the new Abbot of Rato Monastery. This was an historic moment; the first time that a Westerner had been appointed abbot of an important Tibetan Buddhist monastery. On making the appointment, His Holiness stated, “Your special duty (is) to bridge Tibetan tradition and Western world.” Vreeland divides his time between The Tibet Center in New York and Rato Dratsang in India.

Nicholas Vreeland’s most recent exhibit of photos, held at the Leica Gallery NYC, April 2012, was entitled Return to the Roof of the World.

資料來源：
https://goo.gl/B21JJZ
https://goo.gl/pR13tF
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｜報名資訊 Registration
　中　 文：https://goo.gl/fW6vtB
　English：https://goo.gl/Uys5Cb
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　英文演講，有中文翻譯
　The lecture will be conducted in English with Chinese translation available
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　FB專頁將會同步直播
　There will be live stream on NTU Sunrise．臺大晨曦
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