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Present paper deals with the life prolonging principles of a Buddhist ritual consisting of the animistic and the Brahmanistic and the Buddhist elements known as Shub Chida .The first part of this paper surveys the ritual that I participated in Chiang Mai on November 15 2009 and subsequently it discusses about the elements of the ritual with their corresponding implications.

A Buddhist monk performs this ritual by calling the spirit from the nature with the help of sacred triangular structural d… Continue

On the basis of the text The Straight Talkers , I would like comment on the role of Norwegian peace negotiators in Sri Lanka in this essay.


Opening paragraph of the text suggests that the Peace Negotiators (PN) did not involve the civil society organization, NGO, opposition politicians, religious communities, and business organizations into the peace process. Both the warring parties—Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam(LTTE)—had taken the peace process as proxy w… Continue

This paper will describe about my visit to a Hindu temple Dev Mandir in Chiang Mai on 10 September 2009.The purpose of the trip was to understand Hindu way of worship and religious components shared by Hindu community in Chiang Mai.

This temple is located at the heart of the city with its prominent gate built on Shikhara style. It is a two story temple. The first floor is used for social events like feast while the second floor is reserved for religious celebration. On the second floor, there a… Continue

Shabbat (Hebrew: שַׁבָּת‎, šabbāt) means "the [day of] rest" in Hebrew tradition. According to Old Testament, the God created the world out of chaotic darkness in six days and took rest on Saturday. To celebrate the creation and this cessation, the Jewish tradition marks this day as a rest day and Sabbath begins at nightfall on Friday and lasts until nightfall on Saturday. But the same is not true with Christian and Islamic faith systems.

Christian reserves Sunday as their day of religious obse… Continue

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