The naming ceremony or the Namakarana Mangala takes place when the child has reached the age of a hundred days after he or she was given birth.

Six months after the birth, the ceremony of spoon-feeding the child with the first cooked rice is held as Pahtama Batta Mangala.

When the proper time for the child to do his or her hair up in a knot on the top of the head, the Hair-knotting ceremony or Kesabandhana Mangala is held. In former times, Kannavijana Mangala is a must for all male or female child to have their ear-lobes bored as a purpose of wearing earings.

The next step is the Sasananuggaha Pabbajja Mangala in which the child or the youth is ceremonially ordained as a novice or a monk. There are two ordination ceremonies according to the age-levels. If the child is young but just witty enough to wear a robe should be ordained as a novice and it is known as a novitation ceremony (Samanera Pabbajja Mangala). When the child comes of age and old enough to have the wit to obey the Buddhist rules for a monk, he is ordained as a monk and the ceremony is termed as Pabbajjita Dullabha Mangala. Almost every Buddhist has to go through this stage because the opportunity of bring a monk included in five kinds of dullabha or rarities of occurrence.

The five extremely rare occurrences are buddhappada dullabha rare opportunity of a Buddha appearing within one's lifetime; manussatta patilabha dullabha - rarity of becoming a human being; sampatti dullabha - rarity of having absolute faith in the right doctrine; pabbajjitabhava dullabha- rarity of achieving membership in the monastic order; saddhadhammas savana ati dullabha- rare opportunity to hear with our own ears the noble words of Buddhas and persons who have attained supreme saintliness.

The last Mangala out of twelve ceremonies is the wedding ceremony-Avaha Vivaha mangala. In practice, the ceremonies from the first to the seventh go under the name of naming Ceremony and they are made into the one whole occasion.

Nowadays, ear-boring ceremony and ordination ceremony become one blended tradition. Males no longer have their ears bored and only females have holes in their ear lobes. Thus, ear-boring for females and novitiation and ordination for males are respectively celebrated.

Wedding or marriage ceremony is considered to be more complicated than the others. There have been varieties of forms in holding it in different cultures of different nationalities. Much more social values can be assessed through the process of a nation's cultural activity in setting up new homes to contribute to the well-being of Myanmar society.