All 5 Uses of
pilgrimage
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Phaedrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents.†
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- After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him.†
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- He didn't think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself.†
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- He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too.†
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- He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn't ready for it.†
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Definition:
a journey to a special place -- especially a sacred place for religious purposes