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Opening Ceremony & Keynote Address
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December 10, 2006 (Sunday) |
| Time: |
3:30pm |
| Venue: |
Convention Hall, Hong Kong Convention
and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour View Road, Wanchai,
Hong Kong |
To
be officiated by
Dr York Chow,
SBS, JP
The Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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Dr
Chow is an orthopaedic surgeon by profession. He was
appointed Hospital Chief Executive of Queen Elizabeth
Hospital in 1992 and Hospital Chief Executive of Queen
Mary Hospital in 2001. He was subsequently appointed
Cluster Chief Executive of the Hong Kong West Cluster
of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority in 2002. He took
up the post of Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food
in October 2004.
Professionally, he served as President of the Hong
Kong Orthopaedic Association, Vice-President of the
College of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and was elected Council
Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He is
currently an Honorary Professor in Rehabilitation
Science at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and
an Honorary Professor of the Medical Faculty of the
University of Hong Kong.
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Keynote
Address by
The Venerable
Master Sogyal Rinpoche,
UK
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Born in Kham in Eastern
Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche was recognized as the incarnation
of Lerab Lingpa Tertön Sogyal, a teacher to the thirteenth
Dalai Lama, by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, one
of the most outstanding spiritual masters of the twentieth
century. Jamyang Khyentse supervised Rinpoche’s training
and raised him like his own son. In 1971, Rinpoche
went to England where he received Western education,
studying Comparative Religion at Cambridge University.
He went on to study with many other great masters
of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, serving as their
translator and aide. With his remarkable gift for
presenting the essence of Tibetan Buddhism in a way
that is both authentic and profoundly relevant to
the modern mind, Sogyal Rinpoche is one of the most
renowned teachers of our time. He is the author of
the highly-acclaimed and ground breaking book, The
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Two million copies
of this spiritual classic have been sold in 29 languages
and 56 countries. It has been adopted by colleges,
groups and institutions, both medical and religious,
and is used extensively by nurses, doctors and health
care professionals. Rinpoche is also the founder and
spiritual director of Rigpa, an international network
of 106 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries
around the world. He has been teaching for over 30
years and continues to travel widely in Europe, America,
Australia, and Asia, addressing thousands of people
on his retreats and teaching tours. |
Quqin
Performance by
Musician Dr
Tse Chun Yan
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Tse Chun Yan has been interested
in music since his young age, playing the harmonica
from age six until he picked up Chinese music in his
twenties. From 1973, he learned the guzheng from Choi
Ngar-si, and studied music theory and composition under
Kwan Sing-yau from 1974. From 1983, he started studying
the guqin under Kwan Sing-yau, Lau Chor-wah and Master
Tsar Teh-yun, a grand master of the Fan Chuan School.
He composed a number of new guqin pieces and had numerous
public performances as a guqin soloist in Hong Kong.
He had also performed in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing
and London. His personal CD of guqin music, The Oil-Lamp
Flickered, was published in July, 2001. Besides traditional
pieces, the CD contained six of his own compositions.
One of his compositions, “Composition in yifan mode”
has been selected as one of the test pieces in the Grade
6 guqin examination in China. He had research articles
on the guqin published in periodicals including Musicology
in China. Tse Chun-yan is a medical doctor by profession.
He has retired in 2005 and is now studying in the Chinese
University of Hong Kong for PhD in Ethnomusicology.
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