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Informationen zum Autor Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara are both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. Neil McMullin is the general editor of Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation books, and professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinoharaare both professors in the Department of Religious Studies at McMasterUniversity. Neil McMullin is the general editor ofBuddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation books, and professor in the Departmentof Religion at the University of Toronto. Zusammenfassung Anthropologists! religious scholars! and art historians contemplate sacred place and sacred biography in Asia to show how secular politics! religious experience! and sectarian rivalry intersect. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity inAsian Religions / Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara 1 The Twenty-four Dioceses and Zhang Daoling: The Spatio-LiturgicalOrganization of Early Heavenly Master Taoism / FranciscusVerellen 2 The Story of the Buddha's Begging Bowl: Imagining aBiography and Sacred Places / Koichi Shinohara 3 Where Ascetics Get Comfort and Recluses Go Public: Museums forBuddhist Saints in Thailand / Louis Gabaude 4 Paradise Found, Paradise Lost: Hariram Vyas's Love forVrindaban and What Hagiographers Made of It / HeidiPauwels 5 Pilgrimage as Revelation: Sankaradeva's Journey toJagannatha Puri / Phyllis Granoff 6 The 'Early Hindi' Hagiographies by Anantadas /Winand M. Callewaert 7 Dvaraka: The Making of a Sacred Place /AndréCouture 8 Place in the Sacred Biography at Borobudur / Robert L.Brown 9 Ratannath's Travels / Véronique Bouillier 10 The Interweave of Place, Space, and Biographical Discourse at aSouth Indian Religious Centre / K.I. Koppedrayer 11 Portratiure and Jain Sacred Place: The Patronage of the MinistersVastupala and Tejahpala / Jack C. Laughlin 12 Saints and Scared Places in Saurashtra and Kutch: The Cases ofthe Naklamki Cult and the Jakhs / Françoise Mallison Bibliography Index ...
