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Pilgrims and sacred sites in China / edited by Susan Naquin and Chün-fang Yü.

Contributor(s): Naquin, Susan | Yü, Chün-fang, 1938- | Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.) | Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on China: 15.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]Copyright date: ©1992Description: xi, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520075676 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- China -- Congresses | Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- China -- CongressesDDC classification: 291.3/5/0951 LOC classification: BQ6450.C6 | P55 1989Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Women pilgrims to Ta̓i Shan : some pages from a seventeenth-century novel / Glen Dudbridge -- An ambivalent pilgrim to Ta̓i Shan in the seventeenth century / Pei-yi Wu -- Changing Shang-ying on Wu-ta̓i Shan / Robert M. Gimello -- Relics and flesh bodies : the creation of Cha̓n pilgrimage sites / Bernard Faure -- Pu̓-to̓ Shan : pilgrimage and the creation of the Chinese Potalaka / Chün-fang Yü -- Huang Shan paintings as pilgrimage pictures / James Cahill -- The pilgrimage to Wu-tang Shan / John Lagerwey -- The Peking pilgrimage to Miao-feng Shan : religious organizations and sacred site / Susan Naquin -- Reading the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Peking : the tribulations of the implied pilgrim / Rudolf G. Wagner

Papers originally presented at a conference held at Bodega Bay, Calif. in Jan. 1989 and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women pilgrims to Ta̓i Shan : some pages from a seventeenth-century novel / Glen Dudbridge -- An ambivalent pilgrim to Ta̓i Shan in the seventeenth century / Pei-yi Wu -- Changing Shang-ying on Wu-ta̓i Shan / Robert M. Gimello -- Relics and flesh bodies : the creation of Cha̓n pilgrimage sites / Bernard Faure -- Pu̓-to̓ Shan : pilgrimage and the creation of the Chinese Potalaka / Chün-fang Yü -- Huang Shan paintings as pilgrimage pictures / James Cahill -- The pilgrimage to Wu-tang Shan / John Lagerwey -- The Peking pilgrimage to Miao-feng Shan : religious organizations and sacred site / Susan Naquin -- Reading the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Peking : the tribulations of the implied pilgrim / Rudolf G. Wagner

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