Wedding Rituals Of Buddhist Wedding

In India you find enormous marriage trends those changes according to the cast but the great importance of marriages in India always remains the same. Buddhist shows a different concept of wedding. Buddhism does not regard marriage as a religious duty nor as reparation that is ordained in heaven. Buddhist offers many interesting wedding rituals like one before wedding ritual of Buddhist is the Khachang. In this ritual either the parents or the boy choose his prospective bride.

Once it is decided that the you want to marry this particular girl, a family friend would usually go to the girl’s house. He would carry a bottle of whisky and a white silk scarf called khada to offer. It is meant to see whether they give a nod to the proposal.

This is the ceremony which has the formal engagement taking place. The Nangchang is presided over by lama or rimpoche. At the time of wedding there are many wedding rituals like the boy and the girl are asked to light the candles and incense sticks. Then they offer flowers to the image of Buddha and around it. After this the bride and the groom must recite in turn, the vows that are prescribed for each of them in the Sigilovdda Sutta. And lastly bride and groom decides to live separately or with whole family.

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