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180 Pacific World nor communitas alone, Reader holds that “pilgrimage cannot be viewed solely through the lenses of marginality and liminality or as one-off activity. Rather than being a practice existing as an appendage on the margins of mainstream Japanese religious life, the Shikoku pilgrimage is something far more central, a core motif in the social and religious lives of the pilgrims. As such, pilgrimage may be as much about continuities and providing a centralizing theme to its participants’ lives and religious orientations as it is about departures, disjunctions, and transience” (p. 266). Reader discusses the time and factors involved in shaping and reshaping the Buddhist (for some “folk”) Shikoku pilgrimage of Kūkai/Kōbo Daishi. He presents tales, real and fictional, of pilgrims, past and present, who impacted the physical and emotional pilgrimage landscape, and hence, the lives of its participants, pilgrims and non-pilgrims alike. In addition, he documents the changing landscape brought on by modernization and advances in Japan’s infrastructure, coupled with the demands of contemporary life, all of which have introduced new commercial aspects to the Shikoku pilgrimage, that is, advertise it as both a religious experience and a symbol of national culture. Reader moves beyond traditional studies of pilgrimage; not only does he focus on the goal, the sacred site, and the pilgrim, but rather on all players, major and minor, who influence, implicitly or explicitly, the pilgrims’ experience. Thus, Reader says: “The process of making pilgrimage and of creating meanings is not static…. It is through the multiplicity of meanings thereby created that the pilgrimage is understood by participants, and it is through the seeming chaos and cacophony of sounds, practices, beliefs, legends, miraculous tales, tourism, and the like that the complexity of pilgrimage—a complexity that cannot be reduced to simple theoretical narratives—may be viewed and understood as a continuing process of meanings that are made and remade with every act of every one of its participants” (p. 271). This book is recommended for scholars of religion interested in pilgrimage or ritual studies, Buddhologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians of modern Japan, and is a welcome addition to university libraries. It is smooth and, more importantly, fun to read and, hence, recommended for undergraduates in upper division courses.
BDK ENGLISH TRIPIṬAKA SERIES: A Progress Report In 2005, three new volumes were published, comprising the Eleventh Set of the BDK English Tripiṭaka Series: Zen Texts [Taishō 2012-A, 2543, 2586, 2543]; The Awakening of Faith [Taishō 1666]; and The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sutra [Taishō 848]. The following texts from the Taishō Tripiṭaka (listed by year of publication) have been published to date, for a total of sixty-five texts in thirty-four volumes. The Biographical Scripture of King Aśoka [Taishō 2043] (1993) The Lotus Sutra [Taishō 262] (1994) The Sutra on Upāsaka Precepts [Taishō 1488] (1994) The Essentials of the Eight Traditions [extracanonical]/The Candle of the Latter Dharma [extracanonical] (1994) The Storehouse of Sundry Valuables [Taishō 203] (1994) A Biography of the Tripiṭaka Master of the Great Ci’en Monastery of the Great Tang Dynasty [Taishō 2053] (1995) The Essentials of the Vinaya Tradition [Taishō 2348]/The Collected Teachings of the Tendai Lotus School [Taishō 2366] (1995) Tannishō: Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith [Taishō 2661]/Rennyo Shōnin Ofumi [Taishō 2668] (1996) The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions [Taishō 2087] (1996) Senchaku Hongan Nembutsu Shū (A Collection of Passages on the Nembutsu Chosen in the Original Vow) [Taishō 2608] (1997) The Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sutra [Taishō 418]/The Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sutra [Taishō 642] (1998) The Blue Cliff Record [Taishō 2003] (1999) Three Chan Classics [Taishō 1985, 2005, & 2010] (1999) Three Texts on Consciousness Only [Taishō 1585, 1586, & 1590] (1999) The Scriptural Text: Verses of the Doctrine, with Parables [Taishō 211] (2000) Buddhist Monastic Traditions of Southern Asia [Taishō 2125] (2000) The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning [Taishō 676] (2000) Kaimokushō or Liberation from Blindness [Taishō 2689] (2000) 181
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