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In religion and spirituality,
a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral
significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred place or
shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Members of
every major religion participate in pilgrimages. A person who
makes such a journey is called a pilgrim.
Buddhism offers four sites of pilgrimage: the Buddha's
birthplace at Kapilavastu, the site where he attained
Enlightenment Bodh Gaya, where he first preached at Benares, and
where he achieved Parinirvana at Kusinagara. Although a
pilgrimage is normally viewed in the context of religion, the
personality cults cultivated by communist leaders ironically
gave birth to pilgrimages of their own. |
