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Making Pilgrimages: Meaning And Practice in Shikoku
Making Pilgrimages Meaning And Practice in Shikoku
Author: Ian Reader
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 Kôbô Daishi (774-835), the holy miracle-working figure who is at the heart of the pilgrimage. Once seen a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780824829070
ISBN-10: 0824829077
Publication Date: 1/2006
Pages: 350
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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