A Buddhist Ceremony in Taiwan

Luminary Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan: A Quiet Feminist Movement

Luminary order is a well-respected Buddhist nuns’ order in Taiwan. In this essay, I will examine the phenomenon of Luminary nuns from three aspects: symbol, structure, and education. Through the examination of the three aspects, I will show why the phenomenon of Luminary nuns might be seen as a feminist movement. Although an active agent in many aspects, I will also show that the success of Lum...

Secret Ceremony

The 2008 Anatomy Ceremony: Essays

When asked to relate my experience of anatomy to the first-year medical and physician associate students at Yale before the start of their own first dissection, I found no better words to share than those of my classmates. Why speak with only one tongue, I said, when you can draw on 99 others? Anatomical dissection elicits what our course director, Lawrence Rizzolo, has called a "diversity of e...

Ceremony Design and Analysis

The concept of ceremony is introduced as an extension of the concept of network protocol, with human nodes alongside computer nodes and with communication links that include UI, human-to-human communication and transfers of physical objects that carry data. What is out-of-band to a protocol is in-band to a ceremony, and therefore subject to design and analysis using variants of the same mature ...

Tuesday , Sept . 22 OPENING CEREMONY

Chair: Horacio Garda Session: Intracellular Lipid Trafficking Kentaro HANADA (11:30‐12:00) Phosphoregulation of lipid‐transfer proteins: a lesson from the ceramide transfer protein CERT. Antonella DE MATTEIS (12:00‐12:30) The phosphoinositides and the Golgi complex. Enrique POLITI (12:30‐12:50) Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and sphingosine‐1‐phosphate (S1P) promote survival and spatial reorganizat...