TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sibley,Robert C.
TI  - The way of the 88 temples: journeys on the Shikoku pilgrimage 
SN  - 9780813934730
AV  - BQ6450.J32 S486724 2013
U1  - 294.3/43509523 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Sibley, Robert C.
KW  - Spiritual biography
KW  - Buddhist temples
KW  - Japan
KW  - Shikoku Region
KW  - Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Biographies spirituelles
KW  - Temples bouddhiques
KW  - Japon
KW  - Shikoku
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Travel
KW  - Shikoku Region (Japan)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Shikoku (Japon)
KW  - Descriptions et voyages
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Bells -- Companions -- Blessings -- Spirits -- Dreams -- Enchantments -- Blossoms -- Epilogue : Karma
N2  - The Henro Michi is one of the oldest and most famous pilgrimage routes in Japan. It consists of a circuit of eighty-eight temples around the perimeter of Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands. 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. 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
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