ABSTRACT Through musical pilgrimage in Nepal, diverse groups come together at sacred Buddhist centres, unified, at one level, by an infectious sense of devotional fervour and shared purpose: a spirit of universal community that Victor Turner would term the communitas of pilgrimage. Yet division and competition are also legible within the sharply contrasting timbres and dissonant instrument tunings of groups from different neighbourhoods. Competition, largely unspoken, takes the form of challenging or invalidating the devotional logics of competitor music groups in favour of one’s own neighbourhood community. Pilgrimage involves construction of sacred communities at universal and local levels at once; consequently, there is slippage between goals of universal communitas and unspoken community rivalries. Heretofore understudied musical evidence suggests that competition does not invalidate the pilgrimage process, or suggest that communitas is not a genuine goal, but it does suggest that this is not the pilgrims’ only goal.

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尼泊尔的奉献竞赛：佛教团体中的音乐和公民竞争

摘要 通过尼泊尔的音乐朝圣，不同的群体聚集在神圣的佛教中心，在一个层面上，通过一种具有感染力的虔诚热情和共同目标：一种普世社区精神，维克多·特纳将其称为朝圣社区。然而，在来自不同社区的团体的鲜明对比的音色和不和谐的乐器调音中，分裂和竞争也清晰可见。竞争在很大程度上是不言而喻的，其形式是挑战或否定竞争对手音乐团体的奉献逻辑，以支持自己的社区社区。朝圣涉及同时在全球和地方层面建立神圣社区；因此，普遍社区的目标与不言而喻的社区竞争之间存在着差距。