What would Buddha advise to farewell when one of your parents died?
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You can do transfer of merit.
- How can merit be transferred?
- Transfering merits
- Sharing merit in Theravada Buddhism
- Actions taken to transfer merit
- Does Theravada believe in feeding food to hungry ghosts?
Also you can do a:
- offering of cloths to the monks in memory of the dead (monks cloths were initially made of the cloth used to wrap the dead bodies)
- organise a dhamma talk for the benefit of the dead (generally the night before the almsgiving mentioned below)
- organise an almsgiving for the benefit of the dead (generally at 7 days, 3 months, then annually)
Some of these are covered in: Buddhist Ceremonies and Rituals of Sri Lanka by A.G.S. Kariyawasam
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