Buddhist Pilgrimage: Finding the Sacred Far Away and Here
Pilgrimage can take us to Nepal, Bhutan, India, mountains, temples, and sacred rivers. But the real journey is not only across geography. It is the slow discovery that the sacred was never limited to a place. Through Buddhist stories, humor, and a conversation with practitioners Xinyue and Tony, this essay reflects on why we sometimes need to go far away in order to meet what has been here all along.