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Prayer Traditions of the World

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Islamic salah, Catholic rosary, Jewish Amidah, Hindu mantra - which prayer practice is the most profound?

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Prayer↕	Religion↕	Frequency↕	Posture↕	Language↕	Description↕
Salah	Islam	Five times daily	Standing, bowing, prostrating	Arabic	Ritual prayer facing Mecca with prescribed movements and recitations from the Quran
Rosary	Catholic Christianity	Daily devotion	Seated or kneeling	Vernacular or Latin	Meditative recitation of Hail Marys on beads while contemplating mysteries of Christ
Amidah	Judaism	Three times daily	Standing, feet together	Hebrew	Silent standing prayer of 19 blessings, also called the Shemoneh Esrei
Japa mantra	Hinduism	Daily, often at dawn	Seated cross-legged	Sanskrit	Repetition of a mantra such as Om Namah Shivaya using mala beads of 108
Nembutsu	Pure Land Buddhism	Continuous devotion	Any posture	Japanese	Recitation of Namu Amida Butsu to express faith in Amida Buddha for rebirth in the Pure Land
Lord's Prayer	Christianity	Daily, in liturgy	Standing or kneeling	Vernacular	The prayer Jesus taught his disciples, recited across denominations worldwide
Ardas	Sikhism	Daily, end of service	Standing, hands folded	Punjabi	Communal supplication recited at the end of every Sikh service remembering the gurus and martyrs
Gayatri mantra	Hinduism	Dawn and dusk	Seated, facing sun	Sanskrit	Vedic mantra to Savitr, the solar deity, considered the mother of all mantras
Shema Yisrael	Judaism	Morning and evening	Seated or standing	Hebrew	Declaration of God's oneness, recited as the central affirmation of Jewish faith
Jesus Prayer	Eastern Orthodoxy	Continuous	Any posture	Greek, Slavonic, vernacular	Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me - a hesychast breath prayer of the heart
Liturgy of the Hours	Catholic Christianity	Seven times daily	Standing and seated	Latin or vernacular	Monastic cycle of psalms and readings that sanctifies the hours of the day
Zikr	Sufi Islam	Group or solitary	Seated or spinning	Arabic	Rhythmic remembrance of God's names, sometimes accompanied by Sufi whirling or breath work
Kirtan	Hinduism, Sikhism	Group sessions	Seated in sangat	Sanskrit, Punjabi	Devotional call-and-response singing of sacred names accompanied by harmonium and tabla
Metta bhavana	Theravada Buddhism	Daily meditation	Seated meditation	Pali or vernacular	Loving-kindness meditation radiating goodwill to self, loved ones, strangers, and enemies

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