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| | Ghost Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Ghost Festival has roots in the Buddhist festival Ullambana and also some from the Daoist culture. | | | Thus, the Ghost Festival has special meaning for all Buddhists as one of their most important festivals. | | | It was for this reason she was reborn in the realm of hungry ghosts. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Festival
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| | Ghost Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Believers in the Ghost Dance spirituality are convinced that performing the Ghost Dance will eventually reunite them with their ancestors coming by railway from the spirit world. | | | The Ghost Dance — also known as the Ghost Dance of 1890— as noted in historical accounts, was a millennialist spiritual movement among Native Americans in the United States that began toward the end of 1888 and reached its peak just before the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. | | | The Ghost Dance by the Ogalala Lakota at Pine Ridge |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance
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| | The Religious Movements Homepage: Ghost Dance |
| | The Ghost Dance was a fluid religion that evolved as it spread, and several distinct movements arose as descendants of the original (1870) Ghost Dance. | | | The principal ritual of the Ghost Dance religion was the dance itself. | | | The central precept of the Ghost Dance as preached by Wovoka involved the reuniting of the living and the dead; this doctrine of resurrection of the dead may have been inspired by Christian beliefs, to which Wovoka had been exposed. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ghostdance.htm
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| | Ghost Dance - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ghost Dance |
| | The Ghost Dance movement was a reaction to the total defeat of the Plains Indians by the US Army and their confinement to small Indian reservations. | | | This vision became the nucleus for the Ghost Dance, in which American Indian peoples engaged in frenzied trance-inducing dancing, believing it would eliminate the whites and leave only the Indians and their ancestors. | | | In October 1890 the Ghost Dance movement reached Standing Rock, where Sitting Bull's Hunkpapa Sioux lived with the Oglala Sioux. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Ghost+Dance
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| | 7.2 Eth 110 Lecture |
| | It was the Ghost dance religion which was at the core of the first Wounded Knee, and Indian Religion as much as politics was also at the heart of the second Wounded Knee in 1973. | | | I was the leader of the Ghost Dance among the Teton Lakotas. | | | Within the discussion about the Ghost Dance following its revival in 1973 lies a historical interpretation of the earlier religious movement of 1890 that served to limit the viability of ghost dancing as a means of reconfiguring the Native American nation. |
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http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Ethnic/fac/rfrank/ES-110/7.2Lecture.html
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| | Ghost Dance on Encyclopedia.com |
| | GHOST DANCE [Ghost Dance] central ritual of the messianic religion instituted in the late 19th cent. | | | The ghost dance is chiefly significant because it was a central feature among the Sioux just prior to the massacre of hundreds of Sioux at Wounded Knee, S.Dak., in 1890. | | | The Spirit moved Robert Randolph atop an amplifier to do his "Holy Ghost dance" at the North Star Bar in an October appearance. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/GhostD1an.asp
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| | Dansai - Thailand's Ghost Festival by Utopia Tours |
| | The littlest ghosts are the first to show themselves, pursued by a throng of Thai press photographers. | | | Dansai's Ghost Festival is certainly one of Thailand's most creative and lively traditional folk festivals. | | | Festival participants throw their ghost masks into the river to rid themselves of misfortune (entrepreneurial penitents gain a small fortune by selling their masks and phallic weapons to visitors as souvenirs). |
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http://www.utopia-tours.com/ghost.htm
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| | Hungry Ghost Festival |
| | The Hungry Ghost Festival is often compared with the American Halloween, but in truth, it is actually a very important spiritual time for traditional spirituality. | | | The hungry ghost festival is the time where people in China, Singapore and Malaysia show their concern for the dead. | | | The Feast of the Hungry Ghost provides benefits to the ancestor and he is given houses, cars, food and money. |
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http://theearthcenter.com/ffarchiveshungryghost.html
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| | The Native American Ghost Dance |
| | Among the Sioux and Arapaho, the Ghost Dance was one of the central rituals of a new religious movement that focused on the restoration of the past, as opposed to a salvation in a new future. | | | The Ghost Dance was an attempt of a group of North American Indian tribes to further separate themselves from the white man and the religious doctrines they were forcing upon the tribal peoples. | | | The Ghost Dance was a resurrection of the dead, a bringing back of the customs and way of life that the Indians were trying to hold onto. |
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http://njnj.essortment.com/nativeamerican_rmqk.htm
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| | Chinese Festivals:the Ghost Festival |
| | As the former is one for the ghosts, people think that they should also hang out lanterns to celebrate for the ghosts. | | | According to the Chinese tradition, the lanterns are used to direct the ghosts. | | | Ghosts find their way back when the lanterns are out. |
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http://www.chinavoc.com/festivals/ghost.htm
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| | Ghost Dance Religion |
| | The Ghost Dance religion promised an apocalypse in the coming years during which time the earth would be destroyed, only to be recreated with the Indians as the inheritors of the new earth. | | | The evolution of a new religion, the Ghost Dance, was a reaction to the Indians being forced to submit to government authority and reservation life. | | | According to Wovoka, converts of the new religion were supposed to take part in the Ghost Dance to hasten the arrival of the new era as promised by the messiah. |
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http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKghost.html
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| | Contrast 3 |
| | But, in Ghost Festival, the parade is a religious rite, a solemn worship of treating and adoring the spirits; every "non-professional person" can only watch that and be pious. | | | For instance, HALLOWEEN, the "Ghost Day" in America, is a joyful celebration, everybody is happy at this day; but the GHOST FESTIVAL in Taiwan is a gloomy solemn day, children even can not go outdoors during that day. | | | In order to avoid being caught by the ghosts, the villagers would hold a huge feast of masked and costumed parade on the outskirts of town. |
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http://ielpjohn.home.att.net/contrast_3.htm
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| | Portuguese Holy Ghost Festival and Traditional Practices |
| | It is a Catholic celebration that proclaims the faith of the Portuguese and their devotion to the Holy Ghost, the member of the Holy Trinity now referred to as the Holy Spirit. | | | At the end of the Mass, the priest crowns the Holy Ghost Queen. | | | They brought their culture with them, and since 1901, the Feast of the Holy Ghost has been celebrated in Hawaii. |
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http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/hi/ghost_1
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| | ANCESTORS AND GHOSTS IN THE HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL |
| | The worship and propitiation of both are given much consideration during the Month of the Hungry Ghosts festival, the origins of which, as is typical of Chinese religions, have emerged from a convergence of strains of Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist and traditional religious teachings. | | | The Sinicization of Buddhism and the Origins of the Hungry Ghost Festival | | | of Buddhism and the Origins of the Hungry Ghost Festival |
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http://homepages.ics.edu.hk/faculty/bryantd/asian_studies/hungry_ghosts.htm
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| | Erowid Peyote Vault : History : A Brief Summary of the Relationship between Peyote Use and the Ghost Dance |
| | It is important to note, however, that Mooney's "Ghost Dance Religion& Sioux Outbreak of 1890" monograph written as an "ethnologist" / anthropologist observing the Ghost Dancers at the time makes no mention of peyote. | | | The main connections appear to be that the knowledge of the use of peyote spread through some of the same mechanisms and institutions that spread the Ghost Dance practices across the northern United States and that some who participated in the Ghost Dance participated in peyote using ceremonies. | | | That is, like the Ghost Dance, peyotism was also an attempt to overcome existing social disorganization by means of a collective rite. |
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http://www.erowid.org/plants/peyote/peyote_history1.shtml
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Hungry Ghost Festival |
| | Ghosts are beings in one of the six realms of existence. | | | People often mistake ghosts as being evil because they do not understand them and see them as something separated from ourselves, therefore they think that these ghosts are trying to drag them into their realm, into their torment, but this is not the case. | | | Ghosts to me, with my limited knowledge as a lay person, are composites of the aggregates, who hang around or are "stuck" in the lower astral plane due to attachment, emotional or otherwise, rather than rejoining Sunyata, the Void, The Nameless Way, Tao, whatever you wanna call it for the sake of discussion. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=98
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| | GHOST FESTIVAL |
| | To appease the ghosts that are wandering among the mortal world, every household prepares a table of food, incense and joss paper in front of their houses. | | | Therefore, this period is also known as the Ghost Festival. | | | Beside offerings to the dead, temple rituals and reciting the Buddhist scriptures, Chinese opera is performed to entertain the ghosts. |
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http://www.nychinatown.com/ghost_festival.htm
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| | Sioux Ghost Dance |
| | The Ghost Dance movement was a religious belief system with Cargo Cult elements that combined Christian dogma with traditional beliefs and a yearning for the better days of bygone eras. | | | She refused to tell any thing about the orgie of the Ghost Dance beyond the fact that she had been proclaimed by the members of the order to be the Virgin Mary. | | | The earth is to belong solely to his chosen people, and this continent is to be extended much further west, taking in a part of the great sunset water. |
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http://www.ajmorris.com/a06/GhostDance.htm
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| | WOVOKA: The Paiute Messiah |
| | The ritualistic dance, which became known as Ghost Dance, clearly appealed to the Native peoples who were baffled by the pew-bound protocol of Christian faiths. | | | With the suddenness of its birth, Ghost Dance disappeared. | | | Wovoka was traced as the father of the Ghost Dance and was interviewed by James Mooney, an ethnologist and anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institute. |
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http://www.viewzone.com/wovoka.html
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| | GHOST DANCE Arthur Short Bull |
| | This image captures the culminating moment in the Ghost Dance ritual when swallows appear to the participants in this spiritual ceremony -- swallows, who are messengers from God (Tungashila), herald the approach of the returning ancestors, and a return to all that was good for (in this case) those who remained of the Lakota people. | | | By the time of the Ghost Dance most of the great leaders of their people were gone -- Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull-- and they were forced to live out their lives on a reservation, unable to live the nomadic life hunting buffalo and living on the land - a gift from Tungashila. | | | At the end of the last century, the promise of the Ghost Dance was the return of the buffalo and departed relatives, a lost way of life. |
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http://www.dawnhawk.org/ghost_dance.htm
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| | Haunted Bay - Hungry Ghost Festival - Da Jui |
| | These are the ghosts of those who died by their own hands, by accidents, by drowning or hanging who have been denied entry into heaven. | | | This month-long festival is known as the Hungry Ghost Festival or Da Jui and takes place during the 7th lunar month (Aug/Sept). | | | Unlike other celebrations of the dead in Eastern cultures that seek to honor dead ancestors, the Hungry Ghost Festival seeks to pacify the hungry ghosts, the ghosts of strangers and the un-cared-for dead. |
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http://www.hauntedbay.com/features/hungryghost.shtml
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| | The Passage of Universal Salvation -- Ghost Festival |
| | Today, Ghost Festival is more modest than in the past both in grandeur and scale as the government encourages more frugal forms of prayer in folk customs. | | | Since each of these traditions in some way honors the spirits of the departed the seventh lunar month has come to be known as Ghost Month, celebrated as a time when the "Good Brethren," ghosts from the underworld, come back to earth to feast on the victuals offered by the living. | | | Spirits without descendants to care for them are prayed to during Ghost Festival so that they may also enjoy the warmth of life among the living. |
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http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/ghost_e/ghost.htm
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| | Commemorate The Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival: Feng Shui Resources at Dragon Gate |
| | The Ghost Festival is a period when the spirits of the dead roam free on mortal realms. | | | The ghosts will return to their mortal home to feast on offerings and collect the joss money to be spent back in their underworld. | | | One of the more important festivals in the Chinese culture is the Ghost Festival, which holds special significance to the Chinese community, as it is the most important time of ancestor worshipping.The Ghost Festival also known in Chinese as Zhongyuan Yulan Jie, stretches the seventh lunar month. |
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http://www.dragon-gate.com/specialpromotion/ghost/index.asp
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| | The Ghost Dance |
| | The Ghost Dance in the late 1800’s was the fastest growing religion on record. | | | His vision of the Ghost Dance brought native people from far and wide to hear his message he spoke of honesty, the importance of hard work, nonviolence and of interracial harmony. | | | Today the Ghost Dance is still practiced, although there is still a stigma of fear that surrounds the Dance. |
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| | Hungry Ghost Festival Do's and Dont's at Feng Shui Bestbuy |
| | During the Ghost Festival, feng shui practitioners will display Chung Kwei, the ghost catcher whose specialty is to devour the ghosts that he catches, in many areas of their homes. | | | Hungry Ghost festival is an annual occasion that is taken very seriously in Taoist Feng Shui. | | | The reason why the Chinese celebrate this festival is to remember their dead family members and pay tribute to them. |
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http://www.fengshuibestbuy.com/hungryghostfestival.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ghost Dance |
| | Mooney, The Ghost Dance Religion in 14th Rept. | | | In the dance, men and women held hands, facing toward the centre, singing the ghost songs, without instrumental accompaniment, while the priests within the circle brought the more sensitive subjects into the trance condition by means of hypnotizing performances. | | | The belief spread among nearly all of the tribes eastward of the Missouri, and produced much excitement for several years, until several dates of the great change had passed without realization of the prophecy, when the ferment gradually subsided. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06547b.htm
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| | Hungry Ghost Festival |
| | The Hungry Ghost Festival is one of five major Chinese observances. | | | This is so that the ghosts do not enter their houses and cause trouble. | | | Lanterns are lit to help guide the ghosts to the feasts set out for them. |
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http://ndnd.essortment.com/hungryghostfes_opi.htm
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| | ghost festival |
| | During this period, all ghosts are released from the confines of the underworld to enjoy a month of freedom which culminates on the 15th day with a special ghost-feeding ritual. | | | On the evening before the Ghost Festival, there is a lovely custom celebrated in areas in Taiwan and Hong Kong, of sending beautifully decorated paper boat and vater lanterns. | | | Grandfather Seven and Grandfather Eight are two famous spirits who occupy a position in teh godly bureaucracy as patrolmen, reporting neighborhoos misconduct to the City God. |
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http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kyfoo/chinese/ghostfestival.html
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| | ghost dance |
| | The Ghost Dance was a strange mix of Christianity and the Indians' own religion which tore through the Indian nations in 1889 and '90. | | | The road there is through the eastern gate of the Badlands, over the White River, where 3000 Sioux danced the Ghost Dance in the snow for days together, past cliffs and buttes all puckered up like Fortuny pleating. | | | A Paiute called Wovoka claimed he had seen the dance in a vision and that if the people performed it a Messiah would come to rescue them from the whites. |
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http://www.thecopybureau.co.uk/jeanrafferty/ghostdance.htm
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| | Holy Ghost |
| | This impenitence is against the Holy Ghost, in the sense that it frustrates and is absolutely opposed to the remission of sins, and this remission is appropriated to the Holy Ghost, the mutual love of the Father and the Son. | | | The Son proceeds from the Father; the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son. | | | Among the apologists, Athenagoras mentions the Holy Ghost along with, and on the same plane as, the Father and the Son. |
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