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Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-24 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred t
Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-10 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrim
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Explores Byzantine perceptions of creation and different types of natural environments, and the principles underpinning such perceptions.