Pilgrims, patrons, and place : localizing sanctity in Asian religions / edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Granoff, P. E. (Phyllis Emily), 1947-

Shinohara, Koichi, 1941-

Series:

Asian religions and society series.

Asian religions and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacred space--Asia.

Sacred space.

Asia--Religious life and customs.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

UBC Press is pleased to announce a new series in Asian religions. Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place, a Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Literature, is the first book in this series. Click here to see other titles in this series. This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval period to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings for all religious communities and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry can all intersect. The contributors explore some of the most fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they expand from their homeland or confront the demands of modernity. In every case the biography of a saint or founding figure proves to be central to the formation of religious identity. Sacred place becomes a means of concretizing the ever-expanding sphere of the saint's influence. While some chapters deal with well- known religious movements and sites, others discuss little known groups and help to enrich our understanding of the diversity of religious belief in Asia. The book will be of interest not only to scholars of Asian religion and hagiography, but to others who seek to understand the ways in which religious groups accommodate to the challenges of new environments and new times.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions

The Twenty-four Dioceses and Zhang Daoling: The Spatio-Liturgical Organization of Early Heavenly Master Taoism

The Story of the Buddha's Begging Bowl: Imagining a Biography and Sacred Places

Where Ascetics Get Comfort and Recluses Go Public: Museums for Buddhist Saints in Thailand

Paradise Found, Paradise Lost: Harirām Vyās's Love For Vrindāban and What Hagiographers Made of It*

Pilgrimage as Revelation: Śarikaradeva's Journey to Jagannātha Purī

The 'Early Hindi' Hagiographies by Anantadās

Dvārakā: The Making of a Sacred Place

Place in the Sacred Biography at Borobudur

Ratannāth's Travels

The Interweave of Place, Space, and Biographical Discourse at a South Indian Religious Centre

Portraiture and Jain Sacred Place: The Patronage of the Ministers Vastupāla and Tejaḥpāla

Saints and Sacred Places in Saurashtra and Kutch: The Cases of the Naklaṃki Cult and the Jakhs

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-13095-5

9786613130952

0-7748-5053-1

OCLC:

243616495