Mpu3343 Culture and Lifestyle in Malaysia - Religion

05/11/2019

The word “Kaamatan” is derived from the root word tomot, which is the word “harvest” of Kadazandusun. In the following article, it introduces the introduction and process of "Kaamatan" in the Kadazandusun community in Sabah. The article also links to the website about Kadazandusun culture in Sabah:

The word Kaamatan is derived from the root word tomot, a Kadazandusun term for “harvest”. In the context of this article, Kaamatan refers to the paddy-harvesting period, which involves a series of traditional rituals culminating finally to the Magavau and commemorative Moginakan Kaamatan (Harves...

01/11/2019

Although not as famous as other religions, the Bahá'í Faith is known for its most widely distributed new religious beliefs in the world and is able to form a “community” independently. The following website shows a complete introduction, lifestyle, beliefs and others in the Baha'i community in Malaysia, so that we able to gain better understanding about the Bahá'í Faith and culture in our country:
https://www.bahai.org.my/

23/10/2019

In order to gain better understanding about the Sikhism religion and culture in Malaysia, the following website, SikhNet is one of the website that shown a lot of good lists of introductions and explanations about Sikhism such as Sikhs' lifestyle, celebration events, Gurus and etc. Here attached of an article of SikhNet about the history of Sikhs in early of Malaysia:

The Sikhs have played a major role in the policing and defence of Malaya, and no lesser in the development and building the social fabric of Malaysian society.

16/10/2019

Na Tuk Kong are common local guardian spirits worshipped in Malaysia, Singapore and parts of Indonesia, especially Sumatra. It is a mixed of the ancestral worship of Malaya, the Sufi religion of Islam and the gods produced by Chinese folk beliefs.
The article below gave the clear details about the Na Tuk Kongin Malaysia:

by Jean-Marie Metzger Wherever you go in Malaysia, be it countryside, villages, cities, or golf course, you will often encounter little red shrines on the side of the road, or at the entrance of ho…

09/10/2019

In order to better understanding the religion of confucianism, also known as Ruism, founder by Kong Fu Zi, here attach an article about the history, traditional and doctrine of the religion.

Dr Tu Weiming, Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University and the Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, was here recently to deliver a lecture on 'Confucianism in a Globalising World'. The lecture, the first in the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman's public lecture series, was jointly pres...

09/10/2019

On 6th October 2019, we continue visited the the famous Sleeping Buddha Temple (Wat Phothivihan) and Standing Buddha with Dragon Boat Temple (Wat Mai Suwankiri) located in Tumpat, Kelantan. Why there are a lot of Wat Temples in Kelantan? It is because a lot of Thai Siamese have lived here long time ago. Before we return back to KL, we also had visited Wau Museum located at Sri Tujuh Beach to know about the tradisional of Kelantan's kite art.

08/10/2019

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At the evening, we had visited the war museum of Kelantan, in order to know the details of World War II happen in North Malaysia Peninsula. Besides that, we also tool the boat to the Laut Village to see the tradisional wayang kulit (shadow play) art.

08/10/2019

On 5th October 2019, I and my classmates with lecturers had visited the biggest market in Kota Bharu, Siti Khadijah Market in the morning to experience the daily lifestyle of Kelantan people. After that, we had vivsted the Jahar Palace, a Royal Museum, to understand of how the's the personal lives of the Royals family and their social activities, ceremony, belongings, and gifts. We had spent an afternoon at the Handicraft village, for some of my classmates enjoyed painting the batik, a traditional technique of wax-resist dyeing crafts.

04/10/2019

"Dao De Jing" is the scripture of Taoism belief written by the founder, Lao Zi. It's the combination of ideas of "Dao" (way) and "De" (moral). The article below shown more details about the author and ideas in order to let people more understanding the beliefs.

Dao De Jing Chinese collection of 81 classical texts that holds the concealed answers to our existence, to what is and what isn’t, to God and creation.

26/09/2019

Below attach with an article about the history of Christianity in Malaysia on how the religion being spread among Malaysia since 7th Century.

Although Christianity in Malaysia is often thought of as the religion of peoples whose ancestors were migrants of greater or lesser antiquity, whether Portuguese, Dutch or British, or Chinese or Indian; in East Malaysia especially it is also the faith of large numbers of tribespeople. As Malaysia fu...

20/09/2019

In order to get better understanding and exploring of the Hinduism religion and culture in Malaysia, the following website provided a good exploration and explanation about the Holy temple of Hinduism in Malaysia, which is Batu Caves.

Martin Perez Baertl (SFS'20) describes the wide variety of sights and sounds he encountered when visiting the Batu Caves, where Malaysian Hindus worship the Hindu deity Murugan.

11/09/2019

On 8 September 2019, I and my classmates attended a Malay traditional wedding. This is a very meaningful wedding and we got to know the process of Malay traditional wedding.