Khumb Mela

Khumb Mela

"Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river. 

Traditionally, four fairs are widely recognized as the Kumbh Melas: 

the Haridwar Kumbh Mela, the Allahabad Kumbh Mela, 

the Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha and the Ujjain Simhastha, 

These four fairs are held periodically at one of the following places by rotation: Haridwar, Allahabad, Nashik and Ujjain. 

The main festival site is located on the banks of a river the Ganges 

(Ganga) at Haridwar, the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna and the mythical Sarasvati at Allahabad, the Godavari at Nashik and the Shipra at Ujjain. 

Bathing in these rivers is thought to cleanse a person of all sins. 

At any given place, the Kumbh Mela is held once in 12 years. "

2016

Anarhi

(10:01)

Buddha pilgrimage

An educational video on four places of Buddha pilgrimage:

"This educational video follows the path of Buddhist pilgrims from around the world as they visit Lumbini, Nepal, the site of the Buddha's birth; Bodh Gaya, India, the site of the Buddha's enlightenment; Sarnath, India, the site of the Buddha's first sermon; Rajgir, India, the site of the Vulture's Peak, where the Buddha gave several famous sermons; Vaishali, India, where the Buddha first accepted women into the order of nuns; and Kushinagar, India, the site of the Buddha's death."

2014

Philip Lucas

(50:29)

Sacred Journeys

Sometimes one of the sister blogs points to the other.

So I would like to point to Pilgrimage and Place for the documentary series from Bruce Feiler on Sacred Journeys.

Faith
in Lourdes,
on the Shikoku,
in Jerusalem,
in Mecca,
on the Kumbh Mela
and Osun Osogbo in Central Africa.

See it here.

Both Pilgrimage and Place as The Pilgrims Gaze are blogs by me.

Pilgrimage and place has no unique focus on film, documentary and youtube movies but also looks at more background subjects regarding pilgrimage and place. So also expect more stuff on spirituality, on poetry, on pilgrimage to a bench or a grave....

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