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The living care for ancestors, wandering spirits at Malaysia's Hungry Ghost Festival

The Hungry Ghost Festival is observed during the seventh month of the lunar calendar, drawing on Buddhist, Taoist and folk religious beliefs about the relationship between the living and the dead

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The living care for ancestors, wandering spirits at Malaysia's Hungry Ghost Festival
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