In collaboration with the QUB AHSS Faculty and the QUB Language Centre, The Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival Cultural Forum hold a seminar on ‘Zen and Visual Art’ on March 13, 2024. We invited Zen master Ziyun Ho and Guzheng music artist Wei Deng to present the essence of Zen connotation from an art perspective. The details are as follows:
Topic: Zen and Visual Culture
Time: 15:30-17:00pm, 13th March, 2024
Location: Conference Room2, Riddel Hall (185 Stranmillis Rd, Belfast BT9 5EE)
Speaker: Zen Master Ziyun Ho
Performer: Wei Deng
Content:
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- Opening Music: A Guzheng music performance by Wei Deng titled ‘Zen Rhythm’, which is a millennia-old Buddhist musical tune that, through the performer’s skills, perfectly conveys a serene contemplation of all things being self-sufficient.
- Part One: Performance art ‘Breaking Free from Attachment’
- Part Two: Concepts of Zen and its developmental origins; an overview of the history and culture of Shaolin Temple, the ancestral home of Chinese Zen Buddhism, its relationship with Kung Fu movies, and Ziyun’s connection with Shaolin Temple.
- Part Three: A live experience of learning Shaolin wellness exercises, Qigong breathing techniques, and meditation.
- Part Four: Q&A session
- Part Five: Donation of artworks to QUB
Zen master Jackie Ziyun Ho（贺子云）, also known by the art name Yun Shi（云师）and Dharma name Shi Yanlong（释延隆）was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China. He graduated with a degree in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Ziyun has travelled to over forty countries and regions, eventually secluding himself for sixteen years in Mountain Song to meditate, attain enlightenment, and study calligraphy and painting. He became a disciple of Shi Yongxin, the abbot of the Shaolin Temple in Mountain Song, China, adopting the Dharma name Shi Yanlong. He is recognized as a 34th generation Shaolin Zen (Chan) and martial arts successor and holds a 7th Dan in Chinese martial arts.
Ziyun has been invited to teach in multiple countries and regions, spreading and promoting the tradition of Zen (Chan) Buddhism, amassing over six thousand disciples around the world. In 2014, he founded the Mountain Song Art Studio（嵩山画驿）, and his artworks have been featured in national tours such as the ‘Shifang Mountain Wind’（十方山风全国巡展）and the Mountain Wind Exhibition（山风展） at the Today Art Museum（今日美术馆）, as well as in the Mountain Wind art book(山风画册） published the same year, and in Dunhuang Art（敦煌美术）and Oriental Art·Master（东方艺术·大家）
From 2016 to the present, he has held solo exhibitions and published personal collections of calligraphy and paintings in various countries including Russia (at the Dimitrovgrad Art Museum, Russia), the United Kingdom (London), Italy (Milan), Spain (Madrid), Argentina, and also within China. In 2006, he participated in the filming of the Discovery Channel’s documentary Fight Quest, which aired on China Central Television’s Channel 10. In 2023, the documentary The Road to Kung Fu he participated in won the Best Long Video Award at the United Nations Chinese Language Day & The Third Chinese Language Video Festival.
He currently serves as the head of the Mountain Song International Zen Meditation Center, the principal of the Mountain Song Art Studio, a traditional Chinese culture consultant at the Kunlun Fight World Combat Sports Center and a chief Zen mentor at the Bank of China
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