- Ritual
- Dujie
- Region and community
- ラオス／Lanten Yao（Mun Lanten）
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Religious initiation / Community initiation / New social responsibilities
- Legal age of majority
- Lao People's Democratic Republic18 yearsLao People's Democratic Republic · Calendar unspecified · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
Among the Lanten Yao, or Mun Lanten, of Laos, Dujie is an initiation and ordination through which young men enter adult standing and become qualified to carry ritual knowledge and responsibilities. The University of Hong Kong’s Yao Dao Project describes the rite as a transition into both social adulthood and a recognized religious role.
A Cambridge study records that the practice revived in the early 2010s after a period of interruption around 2005–2010. That evidence establishes a recovery of practice, not a dated individual ceremony in a particular year.
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