Searching for the Dharma, Finding Salvation – Buddhist Pilgrimage in Time and Space

Proceedings of the Workshop 'Buddhist Pilgrimage in History and Present Times' at the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI), Lumbini, 11 -13 January 2010

by Christoph Cueppers and Max Deeg

Book cover: Searching for the Dharma, Finding Salvation – Buddhist Pilgrimage in Time and Space

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(May 2015)

ISBN: 9783954900039

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Contents: Going Nowhere: Power and polemic in Brahminical Pilgrimage Literature; The Beginnings of Buddhist Pilgrimage: The Four Famous Sites in India; When Peregrinus is not Pilgrim: The Chinese “Pilgrims'” Records A Revision of Literary Genre and Its Context; A Portrait Left by Faxian on His Pilgrimage to India; The Implementation and Popularization of a New Visual Idiom – the Upper Tianzhu Monastery in Hangzhou and its Famous White-Robed Guanyin Sandalwood Statue; Phra Thaen Sila-at: From Pancabuddhabyakarana to Pilgrimage; Some Peculiarities of the Uygur Buddhist Pilgrim Inscriptions; The Complexity of Tibetan Pilgrimage; The Pilgrimage to Mount Kha ba dkar po: A Metaphor for bardo?; Pilgrimage Tourism Networks: Prospects and Challenges in Nepal.


MAX DEEG Introduction JAMES M. HEGARTY Going Nowhere: Power and polemic in Brahminical Pilgrimage Literature JOHN S. STRONG The Beginnings of Buddhist Pilgrimage: The Four Famous Sites in India MAX DEEG When Peregrinus is not Pilgrim: The Chinese "Pilgrims'" Records--A Revision of Literary Genre and Its Context BANGWEI WANG A Portrait Left by Faxian on His Pilgrimage to India BERNADETTE BROESKAMP The Implementation and Popularization of a New Visual Idiom - the Upper Tianzhu Monastery in Hangzhou and its Famous White-Robed Guanyin Sandalwood Statue PETER SKILLING & SANTI PAKDEEKHAM Phra Thaen Sila-at: From Pancabuddhabyakarana to Pilgrimage TIBOR PORCIO Some Peculiarities of the Uygur Buddhist Pilgrim Inscriptions CHARLES RAMBLE The Complexity of Tibetan Pilgrimage KATIA BUFFETRILLE The Pilgrimage to Mount Kha ba dkar po: A Metaphor for bardo? HIM LAL GHIMIRE Pilgrimage Tourism Networks: Prospects and Challenges in Nepal Plates and Figures

  • By (author) Christoph Cueppers
  • By (author) Max Deeg