Devotional acts of the Indian religions: the Hindu puja, the Sikh Nagar Kirtan procession, the ceremonial installation of the Guru Granth Sahib in Parkash and its Sukhasan retirement, Buddhist chanting and the Kathina offering of robes. A ritual belongs here when its cited article describes a devotional rite of Hinduism, Sikhism or Buddhism. It excludes funerary and initiation rites of the same traditions.
All Indic and Buddhist Devotional Rites
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Nagar kirtan (Wikipedia)
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Nagar Kirtan (Sanskrit: नगर कीर्तन; IAST: nāgara-kīrtana), or nagar sankirtan, is a tradition in the Indian religions involving the processional singing of holy hymns by a group in a residential area.
Kaṭhina (Wikipedia)
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Kathina is a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of Vassa, the three-month rainy season retreat for Theravada Buddhists in Bangladesh (known as Kaṭhina Cībar Dān), Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, and Singapore.
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