The living care for ancestors and wandering spirits at Malaysia’s Hungry Ghost Festival

For 15 days, devotees pray and make offerings before a towering paper-and-bamboo effigy of Da Shi Ye. The celebration culminates in the ceremonial burning of the effigy, symbolically sending the deity back to the spirit world.

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