The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1830 page)

, and Chiu-hua with
K
itigarbha
. A new emperor was required to make pilgrimage to Mount Tai; to the other four mountains (remote though they are) both monks and laypeople make pilgrimage, known as ‘journeying to a mountain and offering incense’. In Japan, the major Buddhist centres are Saik
k
, dedicated to Kannon (Avalokite
vara) and Shik
k
. For Japan, see also
ISE
and
FUJIS
N (Fujiyama)
.
Among Jains, places associated with t
rtha
karas or other holy
ascetics
, or with images of the t
rtha
karas, are places of pilgrimage—as indeed may be a living and revered ascetic: particularly revered are places where someone has undertaken
sallekhan
(death by fasting). For the
Digambaras
, the White Lake of the Ascetics (
ravana Belgola), in the state of Karnataka, is of great importance, with its hill on which stands the image of Bahubali, the first person of this world cycle to attain liberation. Of corresponding importance for the