Javbw
> On Jan 17, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I am an Atheïst
I am as well, but work at a Buddhist school, and visit historic places in Japan
which are almost always religious in nature, so I have heard a bit.
One note to pass on here:
Depending on the situation, there are traditional "routes" that worshippers
would take, sometimes going from famous place to famous place in a certain
order, but the route itself is less important than the order number.
Some of these can be very local - as in a shrine-to-shrine walk performed when
visiting a city (which are sometimes done In a certain order to emulate a
historical person's route), and some may be from city to city, where the
"route" is historic/abandoned/unknown - but the order the temples were visited
in is known and a common practice for people to visit the temples/shrines "in
order" - perhaps In summer or spread out over several summers.
One of the more famous Buddhist ones in Japan is the 88 temple pilgrimage -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage, about 1400km.
So if there is some relation - it should have a route, a Place_of_worship
object and a ordering number as the three pieces of information to tie things
together (route, location, order number)
- but *also* perhaps be able to function without the route - merely the
sequence is important - as people may walk, bike, or drive different routes to
visit the location - but visiting them in some order is the "pilgrimage" ,
rather than the exact route itself, which my vary from worshipper to
worshipper.
Javbw
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