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Pilgrims, patrons, and place : localizing sanctity in Asian religions / edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara ; editorial assistant, Jack Laughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Asian religions and society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sacred space--Asia.
- Sacred space.
- Asia.
- Asia--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- The twenty-four dioceses and Zhang Daoling: the spatio-liturgical organization of early heavenly master Taoism / Franciscus Verellen
- The story of the Buddha's begging bowl: imagining a biography and sacred places / Koichi Shinohara
- Where ascetics get comfort and recluses go public: museums for Buddhist saints in Thailand / Louis Gabaude
- Paradise found, paradise lost: Harirām Vyās's love for Vrindāban and what hagiographers made of it / Heidi Pauwels
- Pilgrimage as revelation: Śaṅkaradeva's journey to Jagannātha Purī / Phyllis Granoff
- The 'Early Hindi' hagiographies by Anantadās / Winand M. Callewaert
- Dvārakā: the making of a sacred place / André Couture
- Place in the sacred biography at Borobudur / Robert L. Brown
- Ratannāth's travels / Véronique Bouillier
- The interweave of place, space, and biographical discourse at a South Indian religious centre / K.I. Koppedrayer
- Portraiture and Jain sacred place: the patronage of the ministers Vastupāla and Tejaḥpāla / Jack C. Laughlin
- Saints and sacred places in Saurashtra and Kutch: the cases of the Naklaṃki cult and the Jakhs / Françoise Mallison.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0774810386
- OCLC:
- 51582338
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