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Project

Borderland complex in East Asian Buddhism: with a focus on relic veneration and pilgrimage

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01T01612

Duration

01 July 2013 → 30 April 2014

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Ann Heirman

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History of religions, churches and theology
- Study of Buddhism

Keywords

pilgrimage relics Buddhism

Project description

In treating different Buddhist traditions, scholars have generally pursued an essentialist approach that sets up a "core" from which different traditions are envisioned to have radiated. By using a new perspective focused on "Borderland Complex" to re-interpret some basic religious practices within East Asian Buddhism, this project highlights more dynamic and dialectic patterns of interregional interactions in Buddhism.

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