Ngaben (cremation ceremony)

Thousands of citizens attended the Ngaben procession of Ida Tjokorda Istri Winten, mother of the great king of the Mengwi castle.
This ceremony took the main stage with the means bade tumpang sia and lembu
after the ceremony and performed prayers by relatives Castle Mengwi, Lembu(a buffalo shaped sarcophagus where the corpse will be put into and burnt)which contains the bodies of the deceased were burned by means of firewood.
Ngaben is one of Hindu’s great ceremony in Bali where the corpse is burnt, accompanied by holly songs and offerings. Hindu’s believe that ngaben will return the soul of a dead person to their abode in heaven or send the dead through a transition to his next life. Ngaben is also a form of a respect to their parents by releasing the soul from worldly attachment.