India's culture is marked by a high degree of syncretism and
cultural pluralism. It has managed to preserve established traditions
while absorbing new customs, traditions, and ideas from invaders
and immigrants. Multicultural concerns have long informed India’s
history and traditions, constitution and political arrangements.
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.
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Golden
Triangle Tour --- Cover the the three main city of India
Delhi, Jaipur and Agra |
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.
Pilgrims contributed an important element to long-distance
trade before the modern era, and brought prosperity to successful
pilgrimage sites, an economic phenomenon unequalled until
the tourist trade of the 20th century. Encouraging pilgrims
was a motivation for assembling (and sometimes fabricating)
relics and for writing hagiographies of local saints, filled
with inspiring accounts of miracle cures. Lourdes and other
modern pilgrimage sites keep this spirit alive.
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