Rituals:
Buddhism rituals are meditation, mantras, mudras, prayer wheels, monasticism, and pilgrimages. There are no official religious ceremonies for birth, marriage, or a birthday. Meditation is a form of mental concentration with the goal of enlightenment and spiritual freedom. Meditation is directly from the Buddha’s experiences and teachings. Mantras are sacred sounds that are believed to possess sacred powers. Some Buddhists chant mantras repeatedly while meditating. Mantras are also used for protection from evil and misfortune. The word mantra means “that which protects the mind.” Mudras are symbolic gestures that have the power of producing joy and happiness. Mudras are used in meditation. Prayer wheels are hollow metal cylinders with
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Some of the holidays are the Buddhist New Year, Dhamma Day, Elephant Festival, Sangha Day, Festival of Floating Bowls, Kathina Ceremony, Ancestor Day and Vesak Day. The Buddhist New Year is celebrated for three days from the first full moon day in April. Dhamma Day shows respect for “The turning of the wheel of the Dharma.” The Elephant Festival is the third Saturday in November. When a wild elephant is harnessed to a tame one, it resembles that a person new to Buddhism should be helped by an older Buddhist. Sangha Day commemorates the Buddha’s visit to Veluvana Monastery in the city of Rajagaha, where 1,250 arhats are said to have spontaneously returned from their wanderings to pay their respects to the Buddha. Sangha Day is celebrated on the full moon day of the third lunar month. The Festival of Floating Bowls is celebrated to pay respect to the holy footprint of the Buddha on the beach of the Narmada River in India. The Festival of Floating Bowls is celebrated on the full moon night of the twelfth lunar month. Buddhists bring bowls of leaves, candles, and incense sticks, and float them in the water. As the bowls float down the river, all bad luck is supposed to disappear. The Kathina Ceremony is also known as the Robe Offering Ceremony. On any day after the three months of rains retreat season, non-monastics offer new robes and other necessities to the monks and nuns. Ancestor Day is when the gates of hell are opened on the first day of the eighth lunar month. Ghosts may visit the world for 15 days. Buddhists offer food to relieve the sufferings of the ghosts. Vesak Day is the most important festival in Buddhism. On Vesak Day, Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha in one
There are two holy days in the Hindu religion named Diwali and Holi. Diwali is a festival of lights, and is India’s biggest and most important festival of the year. It is mainly celebrated in the months of October and November. This festival is a great time for family to get together and be together. Holi is another festival that family gets together. Holi is a festival of colors. Holi is a holiday where they get together and dance, play, and bring joy onto their home. Depending on the region, some cover their body is many different colors to celebrate the day.
Vietnamese festival for celebrating the lunar New Year. On the first day of the festival,
Religion has always been a prominent part of our culture, yet is constantly changing. The stereotypes within these religions are slowly disintegrating, forcing people to become more accepting and open minded. Buddhism, specifically Shambhala, has changed what it means to be religious, focusing less on memorizing and worshipping, and more on finding the meaning to their life and who they are. The Shambhala tradition uses its rituals in order to answer questions about various other aspects of life. These rituals are derived from Buddhists myths, and form the foundation of the religion as a whole. The direct connection between ritual and myth allows Shambhala to be a transformative religion, in which it is redefining itself and our society.
Meditation is an age-old practice that has renewed itself in many different cultures and times. Despite its age, however, there remains a mystery and some ambiguity as to what it is, or even how one performs it. The practice and tradition of meditation dates back thousands of years having appeared in many eastern traditions. Meditation’s ancient roots cloud its origins from being attributed to a sole inventor or religion, though Bon, Hindu, Shinto, Dao, and later, Buddhism are responsible for its development. Its practice has permeated almost all major world religions, but under different names. It has become a practice without borders, influencing millions with its tranquil and healing effects.
Buddhism What is the meaning of Buddhism? Buddhism is a philosophy of life, it was started by Siddhartha Gotma, who is more commonly known as Buddha. Buddha isn’t god to them however he is well respected for passing down knowledge of how to find true happiness. The major aim of Buddhists in life is to find enlightenment (true happiness).Buddhist monks live by a strict moral code, in which they are given food, they live a life structured around the teachings of Buddha.
This is also called as Ganesh Chauth or Tilkuta Chauth. Lord Ganesha and Moon god is worshiped on Sakat Chauth. This vrat is mainly observed in North India and this day is celebrated as Tilkut Chauth.
It is the celebration of birthday of supreme god of Hindu mythological figure. Thousands and thousands of visitors make their pilgrimage visit in Kathmandu on this day. Apart from these festivals, Nepal celebrates more and more other regional, communal and seasonal festivals. Visit to Nepal, no matter which time of the year, promises a rewarding festive
My group and I were fantasied by the Buddhist culture because of its architecture and that is known to be culture that means of changing oneself in order to develop qualities such as wisdom, kindness, peace, as these qualities would led a better life. We can to observe if this is displayed in a Buddhist ceremony and the best way to observe Buddhist culture was by going to one of their ceremonies. We visited a temple called Fo Guang Shah to witness their every Sunday prayer. In this essay, I analyze the power displayed in the ceremony because ideology and ruling class by looking at Athusser’s interpellation and theory of hegemony by Antonia Gramsci. The power demonstrated by Buddhist ceremony shows how people and the environment is controlled.
Time has come and gone by fast as people grow old. Every year many people around the world celebrate New Year to say goodbye to the past year and welcome another one to come by. Like any culture around the world that celebrates New Year, in Asia Lunar New Year is the traditional holiday that people celebrate that year according to the moon’s calendar. Viet Nam is also one of the countries celebrating Lunar New Year. However, before Vietnamese people left their country, they learned and followed their own traditional lifestyle of Lunar New Year celebration.
Amid the month of Kartik (late September and early October), the Nepalese individuals enjoy the greatest celebration of the year, Dashain. Dashain is the longest and the most favorable celebration in the Nepalese yearly timetable, celebrated by Nepalese of all standing and statement of faith all through the nation. The fifteen days of festivity happens amid the splendid lunar fortnight finishing upon the arrival of the full moon. Exhaustive out the kingdom of Nepal the goddess Durga in every one of her signs are worshiped with multitudinous pujas, plenteous offerings and a large number of creature penances for the custom heavenly washing, in this way soaking the goddess for a considerable length of time in blood.
This festival is celebrated when the Vishaka star falls on the Tamil month of Vaikasi (May-June). Vaikasi Vishaka, the Avatar day of Lord Muruga is celebrated in a grand manner at the temple.
Every religion or culture in the world has its own way to define and celebrate its new year. For example, the Chinese have the Imlek year and they celebrate it as “Gong Xi Fat Choy,” which means, “Chinese New Year gift.” The Muslims have their Muharam year and they go to Masjid to pray. In Indonesia, Nyepi is a religious observance for Hindus and it is a very unique ceremony. Nyepi is derived from the word sepi, which means silent. I still remember how quiet it was in Bali on the day of Nyepi, since there are no activities on that particular day. Bali is the main island where people go to celebrate Nyepi, because 80% of the population is Hindu. However, other Hindus who do not live in Bali still commemorate Nyepi. Out of all the places in Indonesia, Bali is the only place where people do not participate in activities throughout the day. The Balinese Hindus do not celebrate the New Year with a lavish party; instead, they celebrate the coming of the New Year with meditation that starts before sunrise and lasts until sunset (Putu, 2002).
Specifically named after the founder of Sikhism, it is a solar calendar containing 365 days split into 5 months. Diwali is the festival of lights where lamps and lights are strung about houses and towns and gifts are exchanged for the celebration of a good harvest. Hola Mahalla is another major holiday that Sikhs used to use to practice their military skills by holding mock battles. Nowadays, Sikhs participate in martial art parades instead. Some of the bigger holidays are summed up with the phrase, Gurpurbs.
Date of celebration: falls on the 29th day of the 10th month in the Bhutanese calendar
A feature that is similar to that of the Zulu culture mentioned previously is that of concept of lobola or as the Thai people call it the son sod, the Thai version of the dowry (Schriever, 2015: < www.beachrepublic.com >). Buddhist monks are usually invited to attend and come in odd numbers, as odd numbers are considered lucky in Thailand, they normally arrive in numbers of 3, 5, 7 or 9 but never more than 9 (Schriever, 2015: < www.beachrepublic.com >). Schriever (2015), writes