Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place

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

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