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Buddhist Funeral By Alexandra Hebden AO1- Describe a Buddhist funeral and ways in which the mourning period might be observed. Funerals vary from culture to culture; some are simple and quite, whilst others are loud including party's, celebrating life and death. However for Buddhist a funeral is usually a simple and private affair. There are many different types of Buddhist communities, and each one holds a different type of funeral, from a cremation, to a 'sky burial'. Some of the main Buddhist communities are the Theravada Buddhists, the Tibetan Buddhists and the Mahayana Buddhists, each of them holding a different style of ceremony. The Theravada Buddhists who mainly live in Thailand, encourage a dying person to read or chant passages from the Suttas, they do this to try and improve their Karma as they are very close to the time of their re-birth. After the death, the relatives, pour water over a...

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