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Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: Susan Naquin
Categories: Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the intera
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: Susan Naquin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the intera
Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: D. Hatfield
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-21 - Publisher: Springer

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This book examines the pilgrimages to China from Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and offers a wide-ranging account of urban planning statements, argume
Building a Sacred Mountain
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Wei-Cheng Lin
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of
Sacred Earth
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Martin Gray
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

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... "Twenty years of photographs by photographer and anthropologist Martin Gray. Accompanying each photograph is commentary that takes us into the history, myth