Buddhism and Pilgrimage: A Journey to the Four Sites

by Paolo Coluzzi

For fifteen years Paolo Coluzzi has taken every opportunity to travel extensively, particularly in South and Southeast Asia, making notes and gathering reflections along the way. In this delightful book he escorts us on a journey to Buddhism’s four most sacred pilgrimage Lumbini (where the Buddha was born), Bodhgaya (where the Buddha reached enlightenment), Sarnath (where the Buddha began to teach) and Kushinagar (where the Buddha passed away). Interspersed with comments from his travel journals and reflections on the many adventurers he encounters on the way, this book will appeal to everyone on the Buddhist path – pilgrims, travel enthusiasts and backpackers alike.

PAOLO COLUZZI is Associate Professor at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he teaches Italian and sociolinguistics. He first became interested in Buddhism at the age of seventeen, a fascination which has deepened by contact with the many monks and Dharma experts he has encountered on his journeys.

110 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2021