| Notes | [S.] n. lit. "the ten rituals". In Newar Buddhism a set of ten life-cycle rituals used to consecrate or reconsecrate a holy image. The ten rites consist of: 1) jātakarma (birth purification) 2) nāmakaraṇa (name giving) 3) phalaprāśana (feeding fruits) 4) annaprāśana (first rice feeding) 5) cūḍākaraṇa (first head-shaving) 6) vratādeśa (beginning learning) 7) upanayana (loincloth worship/monastic initiation) 8) vratamokṣaṇa (removing monk's robe) 9) pāṇigrahaṇa (marriage) 10) prāṇapratiṣṭhā (the actual consecration of the image) (see Locke 1980: 210-18; Gellner 1992: 198-99). |
