RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Honshu, Shikoku Pilgrimage

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Increased transportation within the edo period, meaning that daimyos and normal people can travel within japan. Transportation is strictly controlled: paperwork and documentation must be shown in order to travel, daimyos could move anywhere freely, normal people need much more to travel. People must be documented by the temples to ensure that they are not christian or untouchables. Everybody needed proper documentation to travel, no documentation = no travel: people traveled for pilgrimage to explore statues and shrines. We tend to isolate religion from travel and culture, but religion is not merely contained in a temple; it spreads to all places. Pilgrimage is not distinct from entertainment and other fun things. Climbing a mountain is both a spiritual and a physical journey (indirectly travelling within a sacred place, mandalas) On temple grounds, there were both sacred temples and entertainment stores, pilgrimage and play were interconnected. Pilgrimages are taken for various reasons: spiritual self-seeking, healing the sick, atoning for sins.

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