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Water lantern, the Glossary

A water lantern is a type of lamp that floats on the surface of the water.^[1]

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Traditional rituals of East Asia

Boita Bandana

Boita Bandāna (ବୋଇତ ବନ୍ଦାଣ boita bandāṇa) also known as Dangā Bhasā (ଡଙ୍ଗା ଭସା ḍaṅgā bhasā), is a traditional Odia maritime and naval festival celebrated annually throughout Odisha, India.

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Bon Om Touk (បុណ្យអុំទូក, Bŏn Om Tuk, lit. "Boat Racing Festival"), also known as the Cambodian Water Festival, is celebrated in late October or early November, often corresponding with the lunar Mid-Autumn Festival.

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China Daily

China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (see also § Names) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Diwali

Diwali (Deepavali, IAST: Dīpāvalī) is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions.

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Ghost Festival

The Ghost Festival or Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as the Zhongyuan Festival in Taoism and the Yulanpen Festival in Buddhism, is a traditional festival held in certain East and Southeast Asian countries. Water lantern and Ghost Festival are Chinese culture.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Kartika Purnima

Kartika Purnima, also known as Kartika Pournami, is a Hindu, Sikh, and Jain cultural festival that is celebrated on purnima (full moon day), the 15th day of the lunar month Kartika.

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Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival (hp), also called Shangyuan Festival (hp) and Cap Go Meh (poj), is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, during the full moon.

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Loy Krathong

Loy Krathong (ลอยกระทง) is a Thai festival celebrated annually throughout Thailand and in nearby countries with significant South Western Tai cultures (Laos, Shan, Mon, Tanintharyi, Kelantan, Kedah, and Xishuangbanna). The name could be translated as "to float ritual vessel or lamp," and comes from the tradition of making krathong or buoyant, decorated baskets, which are then floated on a river.

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Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.

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Nelumbo nucifera

Nelumbo nucifera, also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae.

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Obon

or just is a fusion of the ancient Japanese belief in ancestral spirits and a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors. Water lantern and Obon are culture of Japan.

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Preta

Preta (प्रेत, ཡི་དྭགས་ yi dags), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst.

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Shinnyo-en

is a Japanese Buddhist new religious movement in the tradition of the Daigo branch of Shingon Buddhism.

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Songkran

Songkran is the water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional new year for the Buddhist calendar widely celebrated across South and Southeast Asia in Thailand, Bangladesh, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia parts of northeast India, parts of Vietnam, and Xishuangbanna, China begins on 13 April of the year.

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Spirit Boat Procession

The is an event celebrated in various places in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.

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Stone lantern

are a type of traditional East Asian lantern made of stone, wood, or metal.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Tazaungdaing festival

The Tazaungdaing Festival (တန်ဆောင်တိုင်ပွဲတော်, also known as the Festival of Lights and spelt Tazaungdine Festival), held on the full moon day of Tazaungmon, the eighth month of the Burmese calendar, is celebrated as a national holiday in Myanmar and marks the end of the rainy season.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_lantern

Also known as Toro Nagashi, Toronagashi, Tourou nagashi, Tōrō nagashi, .