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This chapter provides survey respondents in 2011 with four reasons for visiting Wutai Shan and asked them to choose their primary purpose. These were worshipping, pilgrimage, tourism, or "field trips". Wutai Shan is a world heritage site visited overwhelmingly by a particular type of touri...

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Published inFaith in Heritage pp. 91 - 120
Main Author Shepherd, Robert J.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2013
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
ARCHAEOLOGY
Chicken Drumstick
Wutai Mountain
Young Man
WUTAI SHAN
World Heritage Status
South Gate
Dalai Lamas
Compensation Rates
Central Government
Mount Wutai
Zhong Gong
CCP
Chinese Communist Party
China Folk Culture Village
Core Zone
Mao's Wife Jiang Qing
World Heritage
Suzhi Jiaoyu
World Heritage Site
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Summary:This chapter provides survey respondents in 2011 with four reasons for visiting Wutai Shan and asked them to choose their primary purpose. These were worshipping, pilgrimage, tourism, or "field trips". Wutai Shan is a world heritage site visited overwhelmingly by a particular type of tourist. The anthropological literature on tourism and pilgrimage also has tended to conflate these terms, beginning with Victor and Edith Turner's influential work on pilgrimage. The key governmental concern with religious practitioners is political: as long as they avoid political issues, they are largely left alone. People who visit a site such as Wutai Shan as either self-identified pilgrims or as tourists whose purpose is to worship Buddha are logically more inclined to continue to visit despite the high admission fee. Other women travel to Wutai Shan to spend a few days in retreat at a temple or monastery with a master or at the newly built Buddhist Studies Institute.
ISBN:9781611320732
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9781611320749
DOI:10.4324/9781315428659-6