Buddhist Tourism in Asia / Courtney Bruntz, Brooke Schedneck, Mark Michael Rowe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruntz, Courtney, Editor.

Geary, David.

Marston, John

Miksic, John N.

Mitchell, Matthew Steven

Nichols, Brian J.

Reader, Ian

Ritzinger, Justin R.

Rowe, Mark (Mark Michael), Editor.

Schedneck, Brooke, Editor.

Trew, Matthew J.

Williams-Oerberg, Elizabeth.

Series:

Contemporary Buddhism.

Contemporary Buddhism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Asia--Religious aspects--Buddhism--Case studies.

Tourism.

Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages--Case studies.

Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages).

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This innovative collaborative work-the first to focus on Buddhist tourism-explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socio-economic and cultural trends in the region. Following an introduction that offers the first theoretical understanding of tourism from a Buddhist studies' perspective, early chapters discuss the ways Buddhists and non-Buddhists imagine concepts and places related to the religion. Case studies highlight Buddhist peace in India, Buddhist heavens and hells in Singapore, Thai temple space, and the future Buddha Maitreya in China. Buddhist tourism's connections to the state, market, and new technologies are explored in chapters on Indian package tours for pilgrims, thematic Buddhist tourism in Cambodia, the technological innovations of Buddhist temples in China, and the promotion of pilgrimage sites in Japan. Contributors then situate the financial concerns of Chinese temples, speed dating in temples in Japan, and the diffuse and pervasive nature of Buddhism for tourism promotion in Ladakh, India.How have tourist routes, groups, sites, and practices associated with Buddhism come to be possible and what are the effects? In what ways do travelers derive meaning from Buddhist places? How do Buddhist sites fortify national, cultural, or religious identities? The comparative research in South, Southeast, and East Asia presented here draws attention to the intertwining of the sacred and the financial and how local and national sites are situated within global networks. Together these findings generate a compelling comparative investigation of Buddhist spaces, identities, and practices.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theoretical Landscapes of Buddhist Tourism in Asia

CHAPTER ONE. Peace and the Buddhist Imaginary in Bodh Gaya, India

CHAPTER TWO. Imaginaries of Buddhist Fantasy Worlds in Southeast Asia: The Decline of Tiger Balm Gardens of Singapore in Comparative Perspective

CHAPTER THREE. Loss and Promise: The Buddhist Temple as Tourist Space in Thailand

CHAPTER FOUR. Marketing Maitreya: Two Peaks, Three Forms of Capital, and the Quest to Establish a Fifth Buddhist Mountain

CHAPTER FIVE. Cambodian Pilgrimage Groups in India and Sri Lanka

CHAPTER SIX. Buddhists, Bones, and Bats: Thematic Tourism and the Symbolic Economy of Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia

CHAPTER SEVEN. Taking Tourism into Their Own Hands: Monastic Communities and Temple Transformations in China

CHAPTER EIGHT. Turning to Tourism in a Time of Crisis? Buddhist Temples and Pilgrimage Promotion in Secular(ized) Japan

CHAPTER NINE. Interrogating Religious Tourism at Buddhist Monasteries in China

CHAPTER TEN. How I Meditated with Your Mother: Speed Dating at Temples and Shrines in Contemporary Japan

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Buddhism: A Unique Selling Proposition (USP) in Ladakh

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-8248-8282-2

OCLC:

1140789454