Across cultures, funeral rituals often reflect how communities understand death, the physical body and what happens after life. For the Monpa people of Arunachal Pradesh, traditional funeral practices ...

The United States is an ever-changing cultural landscape. As a nation of immigrants, we are a complex patchwork of individuals from diverse backgrounds, each bringing distinct ethnic, cultural and ...

• In Theravada communities • In Tibet: Tibetan Book of the Dead • In Japan: Obon • The significance of death and death customs in Buddhism • The influence of local culture on practices associated with ...