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    Circumambulation (from Latin circum around and ambulātus to walk) is the act of moving around a sacred object or idol. Circumambulation of temples or...
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  • Circumambulation is the third studio album from American stoner rock band True Widow. It was released in July 2013 under Relapse Records. All tracks are...
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    pilgrimage generally involves trekking towards Lake Mansarovar and a circumambulation of Mount Kailash. While the mountain has been surveyed by climbers...
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    ") 7:53 5. "Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte" ("Circumambulation of the Transcendental Columns of Singularity") "Rundgang um die transzendentale...
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    of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation. Circumambulation, or pradakhshina, has been an important ritual and devotional practice...
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    Parikrama or Pradakshina is clockwise circumambulation of sacred entities, and the path along which this is performed, as practiced in the Indic religions...
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    Transcription: kor ra) is a transliteration of a Tibetan word that means "circumambulation" or "revolution". Kora is both a type of pilgrimage and a type of meditative...
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    and a circumambulation of Mount Kailasha. The path around Mount Kailasha is 53 km (33 mi) long. Pilgrims believe that doing a circumambulation of Mount...
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  • of Arunachala Hill, the temple serves as a starting point for the circumambulation. The practice of Girivalam involves walking a distance of approximately...
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    the devotee goes through the usual rituals of prayer, including 11 circumambulations of the inner shrine, and makes a vow. Once the wish is fulfilled devotees...
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    says that the Kaaba itself might be referred to in the feminine form. Circumambulation was often performed naked by men and almost naked by women. It is disputed...
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    fact that the pilgrims perform a holy pilgrimage of a parikrama or circumambulation of the river. The Narmada Parikrama, as it is called, is considered...
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    of life and faiths. It has a square plan with four entrances, and a circumambulation path around the pool. The four entrances to the gurudwara symbolises...
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  • A Hindu wedding, also known as Vivaha (Devanagari: विवाह; Vivaaha) (pronunciation), Marathi: Lagna (लग्न), Bengali: Bibaho (বিবাহ), Kalyanam (Devanagari:...
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    Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth (2011), Circumambulation (2013), and after extensive touring, they released Avvolgere (2016)...
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    ascetics) meditate beneath sacred fig trees, and Hindus do pradakshina (circumambulation, or meditative pacing) around the sacred fig tree as a mark of worship...
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    considered simply as a marker, useful in keeping count of the ritual circumambulations that one has performed. Writing in Dawn in Madinah: A Pilgrim's Passage...
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  • original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023. "Narmadāparikramā – Circumambulation of the Narmadā River". Brill. Archived from the original on 17 September...
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    of the most important rites of both the Hajj and of the Umrah, the circumambulation around the Ka'bah (tawaf) and the walking between the two mounts of...
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    place which is its equal?" -source: Tamil Arunachala Puranam, The circumambulation of Arunachala is known as Giri Pradakshina in Sanskrit and Girivalam...
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    rituals were adopted in the Pilgrimage (Hajj) including doing naked circumambulation. In her book, Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong asserts that...
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    proceeding in clockwise direction in a manner typically followed for circumambulation in Hindu temples. The temple is open from 6.00 am to 1.00 pm and 5...
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    two minarets, bringing the total number of minarets to eleven. The circumambulation areas (Mataf) around the Kaaba would be expanded and all closed spaces...
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    garbhagriha (sanctum). Around the sanction is an open pradakshina-patha (circumambulation path), which is surrounded by walls and a raised platform with rooms...
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    of the sanctum, more often than not, is such as to allow space for circumambulation. Sometimes, to augment the space, verandahs are built to skirt the...
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    spacious courtyard, with a perimeter of about 450 metres (1,480 ft) for circumambulation. Outside this pillared veranda there are two walls of enclosure, the...
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    in the Bay Area of California for some decades. In 1968 the first circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais to celebrate Buddha's Birthday was conducted. Starting...
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    devotees go to the sanctum for a darshana followed by a clockwise circumambulation of the sanctum. On the sanctum walls, typically are reliefs of Dakshinamurti...
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    making the circumambulation round the various deities would usher the same blessings as visiting paradise. When one completes circumambulation, crawling...
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  • Circumambulation around a temple or a stupa is also a common devotional practice....
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