Đám ma thầy Tào của người Tày (Qua trường hợp ở xã Phương Viên, huyện Chợ Đồn, tỉnh Bắc Kạn)

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This article shows that the funeral of the Tay in Bac Kan province is a very important ritual ceremony to their lifecycle and the Tao magicians play a crucial role in organizing rituals. The funeral serves not only a religious ceremony, also provides serves as an expression of filial piety, family duty, and moral principles. The belief in regeneration of souls after death makes the funeral a symbolic ritual for a start of a new life of the dead in the afterlife. There are more rituals performed in funerals for magicians than in funerals for the non-magicians. This is so that the dead magicians can continue their magic practices in the next world.