5 Pilgrimage as Revelation: Śarikaradeva’s Journey to Jagannātha Purī

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions 1
6. The Twenty-four Dioceses and Zhang Daoling: The Spatio-Liturgical Organization of Early Heavenly Master Taoism 15
7. The Story of the Buddha’s Begging Bowl: Imagining a Biography and Sacred Places 68
8. Where Ascetics Get Comfort and Recluses Go Public: Museums for Buddhist Saints in Thailand 108
9. Paradise Found, Paradise Lost: Harirām Vyās’s Love For Vrindāban and What Hagiographers Made of It* 124
10. Pilgrimage as Revelation: Śarikaradeva’s Journey to Jagannātha Purī 181
11. The ’Early Hindi’ Hagiographies by Anantadās 203
12. Dvārakā: The Making of a Sacred Place 224
13. Place in the Sacred Biography at Borobudur 249
14. Ratannāth’s Travels 264
15. The Interweave of Place, Space, and Biographical Discourse at a South Indian Religious Centre 279
16. Portraiture and Jain Sacred Place: The Patronage of the Ministers Vastupāla and Tejaḥpāla 297
17. Saints and Sacred Places in Saurashtra and Kutch: The Cases of the Naklaṃki Cult and the Jakhs 332
18. Bibliography 350
19. Index 370