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    Ngaben is a Balinese ritual performed to send the deceased to the next life. The body is placed as if sleeping and treated that way by the family to signify that the person has not permanently left and will reincarnate. On the appointed ceremony day, the body is placed in a coffin inside a structure like a buffalo or temple made of paper and wood, which is carried in a winding procession to confuse spirits. The climax sees the whole structure and body burned to free the spirit for reincarnation. Higher castes typically cremate within 3 days while lower castes bury first before later group cremation.

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    Ngaben is a Balinese ritual performed to send the deceased to the next life. The body is placed as if sleeping and treated that way by the family to signify that the person has not permanently left and will reincarnate. On the appointed ceremony day, the body is placed in a coffin inside a structure like a buffalo or temple made of paper and wood, which is carried in a winding procession to confuse spirits. The climax sees the whole structure and body burned to free the spirit for reincarnation. Higher castes typically cremate within 3 days while lower castes bury first before later group cremation.

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    Ngaben is a Balinese ritual performed to send the deceased to the next life. The body is placed as if sleeping and treated that way by the family to signify that the person has not permanently left and will reincarnate. On the appointed ceremony day, the body is placed in a coffin inside a structure like a buffalo or temple made of paper and wood, which is carried in a winding procession to confuse spirits. The climax sees the whole structure and body burned to free the spirit for reincarnation. Higher castes typically cremate within 3 days while lower castes bury first before later group cremation.

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    Ngaben, or Cremation Ceremony, is the ritual performed in 

    Bali to send the deceased to the next life.


    The body of the deceased will be placed as if sleeping, and the family will continue to treat the
    deceased as sleeping. No tears are shed, because the deceased is only temporarily not present and
    will reincarnateor find his final rest in Moksha (freeing from the reincarnation and death cycle).

    The proper day of the ceremony is always a matter of consulting a specialist on ceremony days. On
    the day of the ceremony, the body of the deceased is placed inside a coffin. This coffin is placed
    inside a sarcophagus resembling a buffalo (Lembu) or in a temple structure (Wadah) made of paper
    and wood. The buffalo or temple structure will be carried to the cremation site in a procession. The
    procession is not walking in a straight line. This is to confuse bad spirits and keep them away from the
    deceased.

    The climax of Ngaben is the burning of the whole structure, together with the body of the deceased.
    The fire is necessary to free the spirit from the body and enable reincarnation.

    Ngaben is not always immediately performed. For higher caste members it is normal to perform the
    ritual within 3 days. For lower caste members the deceased are buried first and later, often in a group
    ceremony for the whole village, cremated.

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