It was a lot of lines, and I don't remember so much of it but, like, if you said it to me, I could probably then recite the entire scene top to bottom.

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Singers recite litanies and then some 8, 000 dancers take over, split into 45 groups according to a ritual transmitted from generation to generation.

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They have to write down what they learned and what they heard today, so they actually have to kind of recite from memory what they heard and then how are they going to apply the message that was in the message to their life.

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Then, for the next 90 minutes, the youngsters recite the teachings of the Great Sage, along with Buddhist sutras and Tang dynasty poetry.

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He was then informed he would be disqualified unless he was able to recite a certain prayer, which he managed.

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