The author recalls Bali's "cremation of the century" over 30 years ago he experienced, when Balinese honored their dead, along with a queen from an ancient Hindu kingdom.
With a new temple location and a new full-time priest, Spokane's Hindu Temple & Cultural Center had much to celebrate March 15, when they commemorated Holi.
After the burial, mourners return home (or, ideally, to the home of the deceased) to sit shiva for seven days. Shiva is simply the Hebrew word for seven.