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• Title: Mythologies and Miracles: The Saikoku Kannon Peregrinogenesis.
• Author : Southeast Review of Asian Studies
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 220 KB

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Introduction: Saikoku Kannon Peregrinology and Peregrinogenesis Although the term "peregrinology," referring to the study of pilgrimage, has recently resurfaced in modern scholarship, (1) the term "peregrinogenesis" is, to my knowledge, a neologism. Within the context of this paper, I use the term to refer to the establishment of one particular pilgrimage: the Saikoku Kannon pilgrimage [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], a route pilgrimage to thirty-three temples in Western Japan dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Skt. Avalokitegvara). Legend dates the founding of the Saikoku pilgrimage to as early as the eighth century (718), yet the earliest historical evidence situates the establishment of the pilgrimage in the twelfth century. The current order, as practiced today, was furthermore not codified until the fifteenth century. As Gorai Shigeru [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] relates, because we have no records of many of the popular peregrinogenesis tales that have been handed down, "getting a precise grasp" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) on the true origins of the Saikoku route is difficult. (2) In this paper, I examine these mythological tales of the Saikoku peregrinogenesis and compare them with the historical records available to the modern scholar. Clearly, as records show that two of the temples on the present thirty-three temple circuit were not founded until the first half of the eleventh century, the earliest legends associated with the Saikoku route are little more than myths. The peregrinogenesis stories are perpetuated in pilgrimage guidebooks, by legends associated with the temples themselves, and by pilgrims who continue to travel the route; thus, they add a dimension to the very fabric of the pilgrimage experience. But how related are these myths to the founding and meaning of the Saikoku pilgrimage? And why, then, have these legends persisted?

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