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The Spokane Buddhist Temple invites the community to its New Year’s Eve Joya-E Service, also known as “Bell of the Last night.”
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This cultural service is a way to “ring out 2017 and ring in 2018” with the “bell of the last night.” According to a press release, everyone who attends the service can participate in ringing the Joya-E bell, or calling bell, which is rung 108 times.,

According to a press release, the tradition “symbolically “rings out” the 108 delusions of woman and man and “rings in” our aspiration to overcome ignorance, greed and anger in the coming year.”
The service is expected to last about 30 or 40 minutes. It begins at 7 p.m. at the church on 9th and Perry in the Perry District on Dec. 31.
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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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