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Ahom religion

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The Ahom religion, also known as Phuralung religion, is the ethnic religion of the Ahom people of Assam, India. The Ahom people came to Assam in 1228, led by the Tai prince Sukaphaa, and admixed with the local people. The people who came into Assam included two clans of priests, joined later by a third, who brought with them their own religion, rituals, practices and scriptures. The Ahom religion is based on ritual-oriented ancestor worship that requires animal sacrifice (Ban-Phi), though there is at least one Buddhism-influenced ritual in which sacrifice is forbidden (Phuralung). Ancestor worship and the animistic concept of khwan are two elements it shares with other Tai folk religions. There is no idolatry except for the titular god of the Ahom king and though there is a concept of heaven or a heavenly kingdom (Mong Phi, sometimes identified with a part of Tian, China), there is no concept of hell. It was the state religion of the Ahom kingdom in the initial period.