Question

A practice in these places was inspired by a leader’s decision to engage in “true business” by feeding and clothing naked holy men with his father’s money. Water is forbidden from being placed beneath a cot in these locations on which an object is covered by rumalla (20[1])garments. (20[1])Worshippers sit cross-legged in the diwan (20[2])hall (20[1])of these locations where a (20[1])sewadar serves a wheat (20[2])(*) pudding to cupped (10[1])hands. (10[4])Saffron-colored (10[1])flags emblazoned with the khanda (10[3])are commonly erected (10[2])outside (10[1])these locations, which contain a “living teacher” (10[1])in the form of a sacred text (10[1])held in a takht throne. (10[1])Community kitchens (10[1])called langars are located within, (10[2])for 10 points, (10[1])what places of worship which venerate the Adi Granth and are exemplified by Amritsar’s Golden (10[1])Temple? (10[1])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: gurdwaras [or gurudwaras; accept Sikh temples; prompt on langars or kitchens before “langar” is read by asking “of what larger locations?”; prompt on temples by asking “of what faith?”]
<Ganon Evans, RMP - Other Religion&gt; ~28221~ &lt;Editor: Kevin Thomas>
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2024 PACE NSC06/08/2024Y36100%22%0%85.36