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Pilgrims and Travellers in Search of the Holy
Authors:
Rene Gothoni (editor)
ISBN:
9783034301619
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2010
Pages:
318
Size:
15 x 22 cm
Weight:
450 grams
Price:
INR
3790.00
About the Book
The enigma of Buddhism, and especially Tibetan Buddhism, has enchanted Westerners for centuries. Most of the papers in this volume were delivered at the ‘Pilgrims and Travellers in Search of the Holy’ international symposium convened at the University of Helsinki on 18 October 2008.The symposium focused on Buddhist and Hindu sites from a comparative perspective, bringing together a team of established international scholars and younger researchers working on their doctoral theses, all with extensive experience of field research. This volume therefore comprises a theoretical part and an empirical part. The former discusses universal aspects of pilgrimage and travel, whereas the latter focuses on Buddhist and some Hindu sites in West Bengal, China, India, Japan, Russia, and Tibet. For decades the unsettled political conditions in Tibet have made it difficult for scholars to enter the holy sites. This book offers new insights into how traditional Tibetan holy sites attract both Tibetan pilgrims and secular Chinese in an intriguing and harmonious way.
About the Authors
Andrea Marion Pinkney
Andrea Marion Pinkney is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at McGill University.
John Whalen-Bridge
John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. He is the coeditor (with Gary Storhoff) of many books, including
The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature
;
American Buddhism as a Way of Life
;
Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century
;
Buddhism and American Cinema
, and
Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation
.
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