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Dos
1. Always add a “La” after one’s name to show your respect
2. When receiving a hada (a long narrow scarf made of silk, that represents purity and good fortune), it’s proper to accept it with both hands.
3. When visiting a monastery, always walk clockwise around the religious shrines. It is ok to enter a chamber without removing your shoes, but it is proper etiquette to offer some money or ghee to the monastery
4. When offered highland barley wine, take it in both hands, lift the cup with your right hand, dip lightly into the cup with your left middle finger, and flick some wine to he sky to show your heavenly-mindedness. Flick a second and third time, showing respect to earth and Buddha respectively. Then, drink some before the host refills the cup. Drink some again before the host fills it once more. When the cup is filled for the fourth time, drink it up. Only in this way will the host feel respected. |
Don’ts
1. When two friends meet after along separation, one friend’s hand should not be put on the other’s shoulder.
2. Do not walk over or step on the other people’s clothes or put your clothes in other people’s hands.
3. Do not make a racket when arriving at a monastery.
4. In some places seating fish is forbidden.
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