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  2. Chinese funeral rituals - Wikipedia

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    Funerals in rural villages can last for days and include thousands of people and complex rituals. [18]: xxii The funeral procession (發引 fā yǐn) is the process of bringing the hearse to the burial site or site of cremation. During the funeral, offerings of food items, incense, and joss paper are commonly presented.

  3. Buddhist funeral - Wikipedia

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    While mummification does occur as a funeral custom in a variety of Buddhist traditions, it is not a common practice; cremation is more common. Many Mahayana Buddhist monks noted in their last testaments a desire for their students to bury them sitting in a lotus posture, put into a vessel full of coal, wood, paper and/or lime and surrounded by ...

  4. Death anniversary - Wikipedia

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    For nine days after the funeral has taken place, novena prayers are offered in a practice called pasiyam (although some start the practice the night after the death). [2] It is also customary for another service to be given on the fortieth day after the death, as it is traditionally believed that the souls of the dead wander the Earth for forty ...

  5. Joss paper - Wikipedia

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    Worship of deities in Chinese folk religion also uses a similar type of joss paper. Joss paper, as well as other papier-mâché items, are also burned or buried in various Asian funerals, "to ensure that the spirit of the deceased has sufficient means in the afterlife". In Taiwan alone, the annual revenue that temples received from burning joss ...

  6. Qingming Festival - Wikipedia

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    Qingming in Malaysia is an elaborate family function or a clan feast (usually organized by the respective clan association) to commemorate and honor recently deceased relatives at their grave sites and distant ancestors from China at home altars, clan temples, or makeshift altars in Buddhist or Taoist temples.

  7. Chinese Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    The various Chinese Buddhist traditions are not exclusivist, and are better seen as trends, emphases, schools of thought, or "dharma-gates" (法門, fǎmén), instead of as separate sects. [24] [77] Chün-fang Yü quotes a famous saying which describes the harmonious situation in Chinese Buddhism, "Tiantai and Huayan for doctrine, Chan and Pure ...

  8. Life cycle ritual - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese Buddhist culture, after the cremation of the deceased, family and close friends use special chopsticks to pick up bone fragments and place them in an urn, which in turn must be placed in a family grave within forty nine days of the funeral.

  9. The Four Ceremonial Occasions - Wikipedia

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    In East Asian culture with a Chinese influence, the ceremony for New Year, or Chuseok, is called Chalye (차례). In a narrow sense, it expresses devotion to the god in East Asian Chinese-influenced culture. In broad terms, it refers to all of the rituals involving the offering of sacrifice, relating to shamanism, ancestor worship, and animism.