Natural burial vs cremation in buddhism
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Maybe i'm getting older and death draws nearer, buddhist cremation or natural burial...any thoughts on this>?
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Originally posted by Catknight:
Maybe i'm getting older and death draws nearer, buddhist cremation or natural burial...any thoughts on this>?
Are you able to find any space/land for burial in Singapore.
I thought all die in Singapore are to be cremated.
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Go for cremation. Your ash is then put into urn and in according to your religion (resting place). Easy for your children to visit you too, rather than go to hillside and look for you (your tomb).
There are pple go for burial too.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
Are you able to find any space/land for burial in Singapore.
I thought all die in Singapore are to be cremated.
except for the muslims that is..
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Originally posted by XD2229P:
except for the muslims that is..
I see. -
Buddha was cremated, and so did many Buddhists. My Master says it is a cleaner, more hygienic choice.
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budda bone got those small colourful pearl.
Normal beings will not have.
Is that true?
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Originally posted by likeyou:
budda bone got those small colourful pearl.
Normal beings will not have.
Is that true?
That's true, there will be many pearl like indestructible relics. Not only Buddha, but his Arhat disciples, and any highly realised, enlightened, well-practiced Buddhists can have shariras even today.
See my first reply in http://sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/366959
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
That's true, there will be many pearl like indestructible relics. Not only Buddha, but his Arhat disciples, and any highly realised, enlightened, well-practiced Buddhists can have shariras even today.
See my first reply in http://sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/366959
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When cremanted, the bones will show how a person is.
Is that true?
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Originally posted by likeyou:
When cremanted, the bones will show how a person is.
Is that true?
Not everyone will have shariras. Even if you are a good person, doesn't mean you will have shariras, unless you are a well practiced and realised Buddhist practitioner. Otherwise it will just look ordinary.
I have read of people with the ability of telling which realm the person has taken birth in just by looking at the skull or bone. I can't remember where I read it, some Buddhist book, but only those with psychic abilities can do that.
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
Not everyone will have shariras. Even if you are a good person, doesn't mean you will have shariras, unless you are a well practiced and realised Buddhist practitioner. Otherwise it will just look ordinary.
I have read of people with the ability of telling which realm the person has taken birth in just by looking at the skull or bone. I can't remember where I read it, some Buddhist book, but only those with psychic abilities can do that.
My mum got 7 and my grandma got 12 shariras. We discard in the sea as they wish for that.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
My mum got 7 and my grandma got 12 shariras. We discard in the sea as they wish for that.
That is great to have shariras.Actually I heard that taking a family shariras and make a pendant to wear for safety and good luck.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
That is great to have shariras.Actually I heard that taking a family shariras and make a pendant to wear for safety and good luck.
they are not big, tiny little colourful bits about 5mm dia slight irregular.
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I am sure yr mum and grandma already in heaven liao....
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Originally posted by likeyou:
I am sure yr mum and grandma already in heaven liao....
They are gone for a long time, that's for sure.
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My dad died at yr 1992.
Wonder whether he already reborn or somewhere.........:(
Sometime I will think of him when I am sad or stress....
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TS can always request for air burial.
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
TS can always request for air burial.
At first I thought you mean shooting the body into outer space.
But then I remembered the Tibetan practice.
I'm not sure if this is legal in Singapore, though that's one of the choices one can consider, though not very popular in our particular culture.
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Yeah, many years ago, see the movie, tibetan, the corpse put on the stone, monks chanting, then all the big birds fly down and waiting to eat the corpse. Once the monks use the hammer and smash the head, all the bird rush in and with min, all gone.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
budda bone got those small colourful pearl.
Normal beings will not have.
Is that true?
I remembered there were flowers and colourful crystals among the ashes of the old abbot of Bright Hill Temple (�船�法师). These were published on the newspaper then. Simply amazing. -
Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
My mum got 7 and my grandma got 12 shariras. We discard in the sea as they wish for that.
They must be Buddhists, am I right ? -
Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
At first I thought you mean shooting the body into outer space.
But then I remembered the Tibetan practice.
I'm not sure if this is legal in Singapore, though that's one of the choices one can consider, though not very popular in our particular culture.
3 Rs of protecting the environment-Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Just recycling the body what. -
Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
At first I thought you mean shooting the body into outer space.
But then I remembered the Tibetan practice.
I'm not sure if this is legal in Singapore, though that's one of the choices one can consider, though not very popular in our particular culture.
The Parsees of India also practice sky burial, they have built a tower of tower of silence within the city, where the vultures come to feed.
However with declining vulture population, there is a problem. So now they have now added solar panels to hasten the decomposition!
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Cremation is better...
Burial- the body decomposes and become smelly. Takes up more space too.