For questions about rite and rituals and ceremonies
This tag is about rites and rituals and how ceremonies take place according to Buddhist rites and rituals.
Questions tagged [rituals]
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What is done with offerings after they've been on the altar awhile?
This is an altar maintenance question.
What are the sort of typical things done with the food, water, flowers and so on that gets put on the altar for altar maintenance?
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Is there any ritual or ceremony for House-Warming?
I'm thinking house-warming for our new house so Is there any ritual or ceremony for house-warming in Buddhism and how do they perform? In which sutta it is discoursed?
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Is ritual always a practice, or can it be a belief too?
If ritual is repetition outside of what can be justified through direct experience, can ideas and opinions, as well as words and actions, be ritualistic? Would a belief in God - given the axiomatic impossibility to verify the entity directly -…
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How death anniversaries take place by Buddhist rituals?
My loving grandma passed away on 1st April 18 so we want to have death anniversary.
So I want to ask when should we arrange ceremony, on first April or first March?
We tribute a person with chanting Refuge and Panchashila.
So is something missing?
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Should we bath after funeral?
Here in India we bath after funeral, But my prior question was "What is funeral law of Buddhism?" and answerer said that when he lived in a forest monastery in Thailand, dead monks & residents were cremated on a pile of wood in the forest & they…
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