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The eight-fold fast was often practiced during certain Buddhist holidays, such as during Vesak. [17] In the Japanese Buddhist sects of Tendai and Shingon, the practice of total fasting (danjiki) for a length of time (such as a week) is included in the qualifications of becoming an ajari (acarya, a master teacher).
The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday") and p.m. (from Latin post meridiem, translating to "after midday").
Fasting is practiced in various religions. Examples include Lent in Christianity and Yom Kippur, Tisha B'av, Fast of Esther, Fast of Gedalia, the Seventeenth of Tammuz, and the Tenth of Tevet in Judaism. [1] Muslims fast during the month of Ramadan each year. The fast includes refraining from consuming any food or liquid from sunup until sundown.
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The Friday fast is a Christian practice of variously (depending on the denomination) abstaining from meat, dairy products and alcohol, on Fridays, or holding a fast on Fridays, [1] [2] that is found most frequently in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist traditions.
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There are four shorter fasting periods besides the Great Lent; these are: the Fast of Mar Zaya (three days after the second Sunday of the Nativity) the Fast of the Virgins (after the first Sunday of the Epiphany) the Fast of the Ninevites (seventy days before Easter) the Fast of Mart Mariam (Our Lady) (from the first to the fourteenth of August)