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Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theoretical Landscapes of Buddhist Tourism in Asia
PART I. Buddhist Imaginaries and Place-Making
CHAPTER ONE. Peace and the Buddhist Imaginary in Bodh Gaya, India
CHAPTER TWO. Imaginaries of Buddhist Fantasy Worlds in Southeast Asia: The Decline of Tiger Balm Gardens of Singapore in Comparative Perspective
CHAPTER THREE. Loss and Promise: The Buddhist Temple as Tourist Space in Thailand
CHAPTER FOUR. Marketing Maitreya: Two Peaks, Three Forms of Capital, and the Quest to Establish a Fifth Buddhist Mountain
PART II. Secularizing the Sacred
CHAPTER FIVE. Cambodian Pilgrimage Groups in India and Sri Lanka
CHAPTER SIX. Buddhists, Bones, and Bats: Thematic Tourism and the Symbolic Economy of Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia
CHAPTER SEVEN. Taking Tourism into Their Own Hands: Monastic Communities and Temple Transformations in China
CHAPTER EIGHT. Turning to Tourism in a Time of Crisis? Buddhist Temples and Pilgrimage Promotion in Secular(ized) Japan
PART III. Commodification and Its Consequences
CHAPTER NINE. Interrogating Religious Tourism at Buddhist Monasteries in China
CHAPTER TEN. How I Meditated with Your Mother: Speed Dating at Temples and Shrines in Contemporary Japan
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Buddhism: A Unique Selling Proposition (USP) in Ladakh
List of Contributors
Index

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