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  2. Obon - Wikipedia

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    Obon or just Bon is a fusion of the ancient Japanese belief in ancestral spirits and a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors.This Buddhist custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars.

  3. List of Buddhist temples in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Deer Park Monastery meditation hall (Vietnamese) in Escondido, California Hsi Lai Temple (Chinese) in Hacienda Heights, California – the largest Buddhist temple in the United States See also: List of sanghas in Central Valley, California and List of sanghas in San Diego County, California

  4. Göbekli Tepe - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] He suggested it was a central location for a cult of the dead and that the carved animals are there to protect the dead. [ citation needed ] Butchered bones found in large numbers from the local game such as deer, gazelle, pigs, and geese have been identified as refuse from food hunted and cooked or otherwise prepared for the ...

  5. List of Knights Templar sites - Wikipedia

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    Inner Temple; Middle Temple; Temple Mills, Stratford, London [27] Temple Cowton, North Yorkshire [27] Westerdale Preceptory, North Yorkshire [27] Temple Cowley, Oxfordshire [1] Templars Square, Oxfordshire; Cameley and Temple Cloud, Somerset [28] Templecombe, Somerset [2] Keele, Staffordshire [29] Temple Balsall, Warwickshire [1] Temple End ...

  6. Japantown, San Jose - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese American Museum. Performers at the San Jose Obon Festival, held annually in Japantown. Santo Market mural inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa.. Japantown is the site of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, which moved into a new building in 2010; [4] San Jose Taiko, Shuei-do Manju Shop, [2] whose manjū were specifically requested during the 1994 visit of the Emperor of ...

  7. Temples of Mount Hermon - Wikipedia

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    Known as Qasr Antar, it was the highest temple of the ancient world, sitting at 2,814 metres (9,232 ft) above sea level. It was documented by Sir Charles Warren in 1869. Warren described the temple as a rectangular building, sitting on an oval, stone plateau without roof.

  8. List of temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

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    In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord. Temples are considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth.

  9. Gozan no Okuribi - Wikipedia

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    It is the culmination of the Obon festival on August 16, in which five giant bonfires are lit on mountains surrounding the city. It signifies the moment when the spirits of deceased family members, who are said to visit this world during Obon, are believed to be returning to the spirit world—thus the name Okuribi (送り火, roughly "send-off ...