Searching for the Dharma, Finding Salvation : Buddhist Pilgrimage in Time and Space : Proceedings of the Workshop Buddhist Pilgrimage in History and Present Times at the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI), Lumbini, 11-13 January 2010 Book

Contents: Introduction. 1. Going nowhere: power and polemic in Brahminical pilgrimage literature/James M. Hegarty. 2. The beginnings of Buddhist pilgrimage: the four famous sites in India/John S. Strong. 3. When peregrinus is not pilgrim: the Chinese Pilgrims records a revision of literary genre and its context/Max Deeg. 4. A portrait left by Faxian on his pilgrimage to India/Bangwei Wang. 5. The implementation and popularization of a new visual idiom the upper Tianzhu monastery in Hangzhous and its famous white Robed Guanyin Sandalwood Statue/Bernadette Broeskamp. 6. Phra Thaen Sila-at: From Pancabuddhabyakarana to pilgrimage/Peter Skilling and Santi Pakdeekham. 7. Some peculiarities of the Uygur Buddhist pilgrim inscriptions/Tibor Porcio. 8. The complexity of Tibetan pilgrimage/Charles Ramble. 9. The pilgrimage to mount kha ba dkar po: a metaphor for bardo?/Katia Buffetrille. 10. Pilgrimage tourism networks: prospects and challenges in Nepal/Him Lal Ghimire.