Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku

by Ian Reader

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This study involves a fourteen-hundred-kilometer-long pilgrimage around Japan's fourth largest island, Shikoku. In traveling the circuit of the eighty-eight Buddhist temples that make up the route, pilgrims make their journey together with K b Daishi (774-835), the holy miracle-working figure who is at the heart of the pilgrimage.

Once seen as a marginal practice, recent media portrayal of the pilgrimage as a symbol of Japanese cultural...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0824829077

ISBN13:9780824829070

Release Date:December 2004

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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Buddhism Religion Religion & Spirituality

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