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Getting Good Fortune: The Case of a Tangki Ceremony in a Chinese Temple in Kelantan

Alexander Stark, Chin Siao Mei, Yohan Kurniawan, See Soo Ying and Wan Yusoff Wan Shaharuddin
Page: 127-130 | Received 21 Sep 2022, Published online: 21 Sep 2022

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The bridge crossing ceremony during the festival of the Nine Emperor Gods is a well-known event in the temple of Ling Ying Dian, Kota Bharu. The people go there in order to change their current situation with the intention to purify themselves and achieve a better destiny. Actually, this is similar to a rite the passage in which the situation from the person changes in this case from ill-fortune to good-fortune.

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Alexander Stark, Chin Siao Mei, Yohan Kurniawan, See Soo Ying and Wan Yusoff Wan Shaharuddin. Getting Good Fortune: The Case of a Tangki Ceremony in a Chinese Temple in Kelantan.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/sscience.2018.127.130
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1818-5800/sscience.2018.127.130