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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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    pilgrimage generally involves trekking towards Lake Manasarovar and a circumambulation of Mount Kailash. While the mountain has been surveyed by climbers...
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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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    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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    Monastery – The final leg of the circumambulation before returning to Darchen. Devotees also perform a circumambulation of Lake Mansarovar, covering a distance...
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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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    of life and faiths. It has a square plan with four entrances, and a circumambulation path around the pool. The four entrances of the gurudwara symbolise...
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    which is about 8 km in length. When Vallabhacharya did parikrama (circumambulation) of Govardhana Hill while visiting Vrindavana in 1515 AD, he did not...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Chilkoor Balaji Temple
    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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    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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    the only river in the world venerated through a sacredparikrama or circumambulation of the river. The importance of the Narmada River as sacred is testified...
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  • Thumbnail for Sitamarhi Dham Parikrama
    Dham Parikrama (Maithili: सीतामढ़ी धाम परिक्रमा) is a Hindu religious circumambulation of the sacred religious destinations around the region of Sitamarhi...
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    enshrining the deity is four step below the 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) covered circumambulation, which is supported by 12 stone pillars. Eleven parswa devis (side...
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    to the floor level of the temple. The jagati also allows for ritual circumambulation, i.e. the walking of devotees around the shrine, which is important...
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    or saat phere (Hindi: सात फेरे, romanized: sāt phéré, lit. 'seven circumambulations'), is regarded to be the most important rite (Sanskrit: rītī) of a...
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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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    ") 7:53 5. "Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte" ("Circumambulation of the Transcendental Columns of Singularity") "Rundgang um die transzendentale...
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    be as Lord Shiv or ‘Shivalinga’. Whereas a clockwise ‘Parikrama’ (circumambulation) trek around the holy rock start from Charang village and end at Chitkul...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Jagannath Temple, Puri
    proceeding in a clockwise direction, in a manner typically followed for circumambulation in Hindu temples. The temple complex covers an area of over 37,000...
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  • The suovetaurilia or suovitaurilia was one of the most sacred and traditional rites of Roman religion: the sacrifice of a pig (sus), a sheep (ovis) and...
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    pilgrimage generally involves trekking towards Lake Manasarovar and a circumambulation of the nearby Mount Kailash. The Sanskrit word "Manasarovar" (मानसरोवर)...
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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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    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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    look to the temple, serves as a pradakshinapatha or "circumambulation path" for circumambulation around the temple, as the garbagriha (inner sanctum)...
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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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    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 at least six other, which were removed to clear the area for the circumambulation (tawaf). According to one tradition, it appeared when Ibrahim stood...
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  • A Hindu wedding, also known as vivaha (विवाह, pronunciation) in Hindi, lagna (लग्न) in Marathi, biyah (बियाह) in Bhojpuri, bibaho (বিবাহ) in Bengali, bahaghara...
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