Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage: The Network of Pilgrimage Routes in Nineteenth-Century China = $Lchi初探«參學知津»的19世紀行腳僧人路線網絡
In the early nineteenth century the monk Ruhai Xiancheng 如海顯承 traveled through China and wrote a route book recording China’s most famous pilgrimage routes. Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage (Canxue zhijin 參學知津) describes, station by station, fifty-six pilgrimage routes, many converging on famous moun...
| Subtitles: | $Lchi初探«參學知津»的19世紀行腳僧人路線網絡 |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-222 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B 朝山十要 B Qing Buddhism B “Ten Essentials of Pilgrimage” B 朝山 B 如海顯承 B Ruhai Xiancheng B 清代佛教 B Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage B pilgrimage route book B 參學知津 |
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| Summary: | In the early nineteenth century the monk Ruhai Xiancheng 如海顯承 traveled through China and wrote a route book recording China’s most famous pilgrimage routes. Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage (Canxue zhijin 參學知津) describes, station by station, fifty-six pilgrimage routes, many converging on famous mountains and urban centers. It is the only known route book that was authored by a monk and, besides the descriptions of the routes themselves, Knowing the Paths contains information about why and how Buddhists went on pilgrimage in late imperial China. Knowing the Paths was published without maps, but by geo-referencing the main stations for each route we are now able to map an extensive network of monastic pilgrimage routes in the nineteenth century. Though most of the places mentioned are Buddhist sites, Knowing the Paths also guides travelers to the five marchmounts, popular Daoist sites such as Mount Wudang, Confucian places of worship such as Qufu, and other famous places. The routes in Knowing the Paths traverse not only the whole of the country’s geography, but also the whole spectrum of sacred places in China. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-3955 |
| Contains: | In: Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22143955-00302004 |