Syllabus/achievement requirements

Materiality and Buddhism

Germano, David: Embodying the Dharma; Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia, 2004. Albany: State University of New York Press. 200 pages.

Materiality and Buddhism in Tibet

*Martin, Dan: "Pearls from Bones: Relics, Chortens, Tertons and the Signs of Saintly Death in Tibet" in: Numen, vol.44, 1994. 2. 273 - 305. *Artikkelen vil bli gjort tilgjengelig ved semesterstart.

Materiality and Buddhism in Japan

Rambelli, Fabio : Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History og Objects in Japanese Buddhism, 2007. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 273 pages.

Pilgrimage, Tibet

Huber, Toni: The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain; Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, 1999. New York: Oxford University Press. 297 pages.

Pilgrimage, Japan

Reader, Ian: Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku, 2005. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 271 pages.

Recommended reading:

Buddhism

Prebish, Charles S. and Damien Keown: Introducing Buddhism, 2006. Routledge.

Tibetan religion

Samuel, Geoffrey: Civilized Shamans. Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, 1993. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Japanese religion

Kasahara, Kazuo, ed.: A history of Japanese religion, 2001. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing.

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