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The Five Tibetan Rites is a system of exercises first publicized by Peter Kelder in a 1939 booklet titled The Eye of Revelation. The system is also referred to as "The Five Rites", "The Five Tibetans" and "The Five Rites of Rejuvenation". Kelder described the rites as having the potential to restore youthfulness through changing one's internal ...
Relationships to the Other-Than-Human. In Anishinaabe traditional belief, everything in the environment is interconnected and has important relationships with the things around it. [7] Non-humans, and ecosystems are viewed as having great worth and importance, in addition to humans. [5] One such relationship in Anishinaabe homeland (what is now ...
The rites and prayers in the Blessing Way are concerned with healing, creation, harmony and peace. The song cycles recount the elaborate Navajo creation story (Diné Bahaneʼ). One of the most important Blessing Way rites is the Kinaaldá ceremony, in which a young girl makes the transition to womanhood upon her menarche. [1]
Communal rituals are important in most Taoist traditions, as are methods of self-cultivation. Taoist self-cultivation practices tend to focus on the transformation of the heartmind together with bodily substances and energies (like jing and qi) and their connection to natural and universal forces, patterns, and powers. [257]
Tibetan Buddhism[a] is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. It also has a sizable number of adherents in the areas surrounding the Himalayas, including the Indian regions of Ladakh, Darjeeling, Sikkim, and Zangnan (Arunachal Pradesh), as well as in Nepal. Smaller groups of practitioners can be found in Central Asia, some ...
Various rituals are important to Lakota life, seven of them presented as having been given by a benevolent wakʽą spirit, White Buffalo Calf Woman. These include the sweat lodge purification ceremony, the vision quest, and the sun dance. A ritual specialist, usually called a wičháša wakhá ("holy man"), is responsible for healing and other ...
Animism. Animism (from Latin: anima meaning ' breath, spirit, life ') [1][2] is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. [3][4][5][6] Animism perceives all things— animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words —as being animated, having agency and ...
The Temple of the City God in Wen'ao, Magong, Taiwan. Altar inside the Temple of the Five Lords in Haikou, Hainan. Chinese folk religion comprises a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. This includes the veneration of shen ('spirits') and ancestors, [1] and worship devoted to deities and ...