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Contents: Going Nowhere: Power and polemic in Brahminical Pilgrimage Literature; The Beginnings of Buddhist Pilgrimage: The Four Famous Sites in India; When Peregrinus is not Pilgrim: The Chinese "Pilgrims'" Records A Revision of Literary Genre and Its Context; A Portrait Left by Faxian on His Pilgrimage to India; The Implementation and Popularization of a New Visual Idiom - the Upper Tianzhu Monastery in Hangzhou and its Famous White-Robed Guanyin Sandalwood Statue; Phra Thaen Sila-at: From Pancabuddhabyakarana to Pilgrimage; Some Peculiarities of the Uygur Buddhist Pilgrim Inscriptions; The Complexity of Tibetan Pilgrimage; The Pilgrimage to Mount Kha ba dkar po: A Metaphor for bardo?; Pilgrimage Tourism Networks: Prospects and Challenges in Nepal.