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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. Pictorial boards, xi, 211 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 32 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held March 16 to June 20, 2010, at the Asia Society Museum, New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art' employs sacred objects, textiles, sculpture, manuscripts, and paintings to discuss the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asia's artistic production. Accompanying an exhibition of approximately 90 extraordinary objects, many of which have never before been displayed publicly, this book addresses the process of the sacred journey in its entirety, including discussion of pilgrimage motivation, ritual preparation, and worship at the sacred destination. Exceptional and visually stunning examples of painted mandalas, reliquaries, prayer wheels, and traveling shrines demonstrate that pilgrims and pilgrimage inspired centuries of artistic production and shaped the development of visual culture in Asia." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The geography of Buddhist pilgrimage in Asia, by Robert H. Stoddard; Outward and inward journeys: an introduction to Buddhist pilgrimage, by D. Max Moerman; The significance of Bodh Gaya, by Janice Leoshko; Bhutan's tiger's nest: a Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage and popular media, by Katherine Anne Paul; The temple on Mount Suthep and pilgrimage in northern Thailand, by Donald K. Swearer; Buddhist pilgrimage and mountains in China, by Chun-fang Yu; The sacred topography of Mount Wutai at Dunhuang, by Susan L. Benigson; Buddhist pilgrimages in Japan, by Ian Reader; Catalogue. The Buddha and the sacred site, by entries by Jacqueline Ganem [and others]. The journey, by entries by Terese Tse Bartholomew [and others]. Merit, mementos, and sacred bonds, by entries by Jacqueline Ganem [and others]. Appendices. Map of Asia: selected Buddhist pilgrimage sites. Map of Asia: major routes for trade and the transmission of Buddhism. Chronology of selected events related to Buddhist pilgrimage, by Daisy Yiyou Wang and Adriana Proser. Glossary of names and terms, by Daisy Yiyou Wang and Adriana Proser. Size: Folio. Collectible.…