Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition

Jacobsen, Knut A.

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“…Survey results show the approach's limits and indicate that participants are open to new ideas but tend to pledge to do better those small things already done well rather than make major lifestyle changes. The project relies for its effectiveness on the Hindu tradition of renunciation and the making of vows on holy days as well as the commitment that most Hindu devotees demonstrate to self-purification [68].…”

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Communicating Sustainability within Britain’s Hindu Community

das¹,

Haigh

Chauhan³

2014

Sustainability

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Abstract:Focusing on the UK's Hindu community, this explores some modes for the communication of pro-sustainability messages and their affective strength. These campaigns employ the community-center role of many UK Hindu temples to connect Hindu congregations to the cause of environmental sustainability through the medium of Hindu scripture and tradition. The international Hindu Bhumi Project (and its larger -Many Heavens, One Earth‖ interfaith initiative) provide an umbrella for such pedagogic initiatives. Two are described. First is the festival-ground-based Karma to Climate Change (K2CC) campaign, which encourages pilgrims to pledge pro-sustainability lifestyle changes as part of their religious practice. The second, the Ahimsa Project, is devoted to the popularization and production of ethically pure, cruelty/slaughter free milk, which encourages people to develop greater empathy for the wellbeing of their fellow creatures and, ultimately, to abhor the casual slaughter of animals for meat. These projects are driven by the enthusiasm and concern of a younger generation of British-born Hindu people and their impacts are felt both through the campaigns themselves and the family structures of the volunteers who participate.

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Communicating Sustainability within Britain’s Hindu Community

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Haigh

Chauhan³

2014

Sustainability

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“…The pandas' overt attempt to elicit donations in Vrindavan appears to be a deviation from tradition in the eyes of many contemporary observers. However, Knut A. Jacobsen's inquiry into the history of Hindu pilgrimage 44 makes it clear that competition for ritual income and donations by pilgrims have always been important driving forces in its perpetuation. This partly explains the enormous geographical expansion of the pilgrimage tradition, 45 and the continuous focus and emphasis on donations to Brahmans in the Puranic literature on pilgrimage.…”

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“…48 In this respect these texts could be seen as early forms of advertisements, functioning in some ways like tourist brochures do today. 49 The attempts to elicit donations from pilgrims by the pandas are, in other words, very much in tune with the history of Hindu pilgrimage as a whole. In what ways does the history of pandas and their trade-pandagiri-shed light on the tours described above?…”

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Krishna's Curse in the Age of Global Tourism: Hindu pilgrimage priests and their trade

Aukland

2016

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article explores the strategies of pandas (Hindu pilgrimage priests) in Vrindavan, relating changes in their trade (pandagiri) to tourism. These changes are the result of the pandas’ creative adjustments to shifting travel patterns that affect their market niche. Utilizing audio-recordings of the pandas’ guided tours, the article first portrays how pandas acquire ritual income from pilgrims by ‘inspiring’ donations of which they get a percentage. While commercial interests and economic conditions have always been crucial in shaping and perpetuating pilgrimage institutions and practices, global tourism has become an increasingly significant factor. Pandas all over India modify their services while the traditional exchange model (jajmani system) wanes. Changing travel patterns have made the guided tour a crucial component in the operation of Hindu pilgrimage. Vrindavan pandas have therefore turned into guides conducting religious sightseeing tours (darshan yatra). These tours are core to the new strategy for acquiring ritual income. To secure clients, pandas build connections with travel agencies and drivers and, in some cases, establish their own travel agencies that combine priestly and tourism services. The pandas’ own understandings of their methods and contemporary travel trends further reflect the dynamic interplay between pilgrimage and tourism in India.

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Geography of Hindu Pilgrimage Places (Tīrthas) in India

Singh

Rana

2023

Springer Geography

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Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition

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Communicating Sustainability within Britain’s Hindu Community

Communicating Sustainability within Britain’s Hindu Community

Krishna's Curse in the Age of Global Tourism: Hindu pilgrimage priests and their trade

Geography of Hindu Pilgrimage Places (Tīrthas) in India

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