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Twelve Auspicious Rites

The Twelve Auspicious Rites are a series of worldly rites of passage recognized in traditional Burmese culture, particularly by the Bamar and Rakhine peoples. These are distinct from the Thirty-eight Buddhist Beatitudes described in the Maṅgala Sutta.

List of rites
rite. • () – the successful delivery of a child • () – the shaving of a child's hair on the 7th day of a child's birth • () – the first ceremonial feeding of betel nut (flavored with catechu, licorice, and fennel seeds) to a child, on the 75th or 100th day of a child's birth • () – the first revealing of a child to the sun and moon on the full moon day of the first, second, or third Burmese lunar months following a child's birth, similar to the Hindu annaprashana ceremony • () – the hair-knotting of a child, after the hair is shampooed with traditional herbal shampoo made with soap acacia and Grewia elastica (Tayaw kinbun) on an auspicious day The scholar Aung Chein also identifies a number of auspicious rites outside of the twelve listed above: • () – the first touching of the ground by a child • () – the first parting of the child's hair by his or her mother • () – the wearing of the makuṭa crown • () – the housewarming ceremony == See also ==
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