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portada Buddhist Tourism in Asia
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
266
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6x15x2.3 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9780824889852
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Buddhist Tourism in Asia

Bruntz, Courtney ; Schedneck, Brooke ; Rowe, Mark Michael (Author) · University of Hawaii Press · Paperback

Buddhist Tourism in Asia - Bruntz, Courtney ; Schedneck, Brooke ; Rowe, Mark Michael

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Synopsis "Buddhist Tourism in Asia"

This innovative collaborative work--the first to focus on Buddhist tourism--explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socioeconomic and cultural trends in the region. Following an introduction that offers the first theoretical understanding of tourism from a Buddhist studies' perspective, early chapters discuss the ways Buddhists and non-Buddhists imagine concepts and places related to the religion. Case studies highlight Buddhist peace in India, Buddhist heavens and hells in Singapore, Thai temple space, and the future Buddha Maitreya in China. Buddhist tourism's connections to the state, market, and new technologies are explored in chapters on Indian package tours for pilgrims, thematic Buddhist tourism in Cambodia, the technological innovations of Buddhist temples in China, and the promotion of pilgrimage sites in Japan. Contributors then situate the financial concerns of Chinese temples, speed dating in temples in Japan, and the diffuse and pervasive nature of Buddhism for tourism promotion in Ladakh, India. How have tourist routes, groups, sites, and practices associated with Buddhism come to be possible and what are the effects? In what ways do travelers derive meaning from Buddhist places? How do Buddhist sites fortify national, cultural, or religious identities? The comparative research in South, Southeast, and East Asia presented here draws attention to the intertwining of the sacred and the financial and how local and national sites are situated within global networks. Together these findings generate a compelling comparative investigation of Buddhist spaces, identities, and practices.

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