Sentence examples for circumambulating from inspiring English sources

Like many Hindu thinkers, he made an extended pilgrimage, circumambulating India from Rameswaram (part of Adam's Bridge), along the west coast to Badrinath, the source of the holy river Ganges, and returning along the east coast.

Pilgrimages sometimes consist of circumambulating an entire town, such as the sacred city of Varanasi (Benares), a 36-mile (58-km) journey, or the Ganges River from source to sea and back, a trip that when undertaken on foot requires several years.

Circumambulating in a counterclockwise movement i.e., keeping the left shoulder toward the central object called prasavya, is observed in funeral ceremonies.

Pradakshina, in Hinduism and Buddhism, the rite of circumambulating in a clockwise direction an image, relic, shrine, or other sacred object.

Circumambulating the ramparts confers splendid views.

On Wednesday morning, a group of us started a three-day trip circumambulating the local sacred mountain, Zhayi Zhaga.

The rods would have to travel from the port of Chittagong on roads that are among the world's deadliest.And if the transport of nuclear material is to circumambulate the urban sprawl of Dhaka, then they will have to cross the Padma.

However, the sage assumed the form of a beetle, pierced a path through the middle of the androgyne, and continued to circumambulate only the male half.

Members of the tribe of Quraysh circumambulated the Kaʿbah in Mecca (now a central shrine of Islām in Mecca's al-Ḥaram mosque) chanting the praises of al-Lāt, al-ʿUzzā, and Manāt.

One who is junub (impure) cannot perform the daily ritual prayer, circumambulate the Kaʿbah in Mecca during the major and lesser pilgrimages, touch the Qurʾān or recite its verses, or enter a mosque.

Yet another legend has it that the sage (rishi) Bhringi had vowed to worship only one deity and so failed to circumambulate and prostrate himself before Parvati.