Re-imagining Tibetan Buddhist Pilgrimage Culture in India

This article explores how Tibetans have defined India, the birthplace of Buddhism, as a space for themselves and hence created, re-created and reinvented their ancient pilgrimage destinations and rituals there since the middle of 20th century. I begin this paper by introducing the historical develop...

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Published in:Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
Main Author: Kalmar, Brigitta (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2017
In: Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
Further subjects:B Tibetan Buddhism
B Buddhism
B Tibetan
B Pilgrimage
B India
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Summary:This article explores how Tibetans have defined India, the birthplace of Buddhism, as a space for themselves and hence created, re-created and reinvented their ancient pilgrimage destinations and rituals there since the middle of 20th century. I begin this paper by introducing the historical development of pilgrimage in the Buddhist tradition and mapping the sacred Buddhist geography of India. In the second part, I explore the development of pilgrimage traditions in Tibetan Buddhism and the network of sacred sites used by pilgrims. In the third part, I introduce some of the Tibetan inventions and reinventions of the pilgrimage tradition over an extensive period of time, between the 12th and the mid-20th century. Finally, partly based on my fieldwork findings, I examine how the Tibetan diasporic community in India has maintained and reinvented its pilgrimage culture and what possible changes have occurred subsequently.
ISSN:2009-7409
Contains:Enthalten in: Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions