Way of the 88 Temples - Journeys on the Shikoku PilgrimagePevná vazba
Way of the 88 Temples - Journeys on the Shikoku PilgrimagePevná vazba Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancient setting for help in…
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Way of the 88 Temples - Journeys on the Shikoku PilgrimagePevná vazba
Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancient setting for help in recovering what has been lost. It consists of a circuit of eighty-eight temples around the perimeter of Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands. The Henro Michi is one of the oldest and most famous pilgrimage routes in Japan.
Over the course of two months, the author walked this 1,400-kilometer route (roughly 870 miles), visiting the sacred sites and performing their prescribed rituals.Although himself a gaijin, or foreigner, Sibley saw no other pilgrim on the trail who was not Japanese. Every henro, or pilgrim, is said to follow in the footsteps of Kōbō Daishi, the ninth-century ascetic who founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism. Some of the people he met became not only close companions but also ardent teachers of the language and
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