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  2. Buddhist funeral - Wikipedia

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    People often resort to methods such as chanting or recitation of Buddhist scriptures to help the deceased. [10] [11] For most Chinese funerals, if a Buddhist ceremony is chosen, the practice of recitation of the Amitabha Sutra and the name of Amitabha is an important part of death rites. [12]

  3. Cheondojae - Wikipedia

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    Cheondojae (Korean: 천도재) is a Korean umbrella term for Buddhist rituals based on reincarnation. [1] Cheondojae is also known as after-death ceremonies or Buddhist funeral rites. [2] Buddhists believe when someone dies, their soul is held for 49 days between death and rebirth. [3]

  4. Thai funeral - Wikipedia

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    Thai funerals usually follow Buddhist funerary rites, with variations in practice depending on the culture of the region. People of certain religious and ethnic groups also have their own specific practices. Thai Buddhist funerals generally consist of a bathing ceremony shortly after death, daily chanting by Buddhist monks, and a cremation ...

  5. Japanese funeral - Wikipedia

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    Most commonly observed are the Buddhist service on the seventh day after death, shonanoka (初七日), and the 49th day, shijūkunichi (四十九日). In many traditions, the urn containing the ashes is interred in a ceremony called nōkotsu (納骨) on the 49th day, and the family stays in mourning until this.

  6. Yeongsanjae - Wikipedia

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    Yeongsanjae (Korean: 영산재; Hanja: 靈山齋) is a Korean Buddhist ceremony which re-enacts Siddhartha Gautama delivering the sermon now known as the Lotus Sutra. [1] [2] [3] This ritual is a form of philosophical and spiritual message in Korean Buddhism. The purpose of this is to be a guide for the deceased soul to transfer to the Pure ...

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  8. Sky burial - Wikipedia

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    A sky burial site in Yerpa Valley, Tibet Drigung Monastery, Tibetan monastery famous for performing sky burials. Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered" [1]) is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures ...

  9. Phongyibyan - Wikipedia

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    Some rites have parallels to accounts of the Buddha's own funeral found in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. [6] An elaborate set of ceremonies, including staged plays, ritual performances, and construction of temporary pyre structures, constitute the cremation. Immediately after the monk's death, the body is embalmed.