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Over the years, Bowie made numerous references to religions and to his evolving spirituality. Beginning in 1967, he became interested in [[wikipedia:Buddhism|Buddhism]] and considered becoming a Buddhist monk.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thurston Moore Reflects on David Bowie |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/62878-thurston-moore-reflects-on-david-bowie/ |accessdate=24 September 2019 |publisher=Pitchfork |date=12 January 2016}}</ref> After a few months' study at Tibet House in London, he was told by a [[wikipedia:Lama|Lama]], "You don't want to be Buddhist.{{nbsp}}... You should follow music."<ref name="newsday.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/stardust-memories-without-tibet-house-david-bowie-never-may-have-gotten-ziggy-with-it-now-the-pop-star-returns-the-favor-by-performing-at-the-annual-benefit-concert-1.396658|title=Stardust Memories – Without Tibet House, David Bowie never may have gotten Ziggy with it. Now the pop star returns the favor ...|work=[[wikipedia:Newsday|Newsday]]|accessdate=11 January 2016}}</ref> By 1975, Bowie admitted, "I felt totally, absolutely alone. And I probably was alone because I pretty much had abandoned God."<ref name=Arena1993/> In his will, Bowie stipulated that he be [[wikipedia:Cremation|cremated]] and his ashes scattered in [[wikipedia:Bali|Bali]] "in accordance with the Buddhist rituals".<ref name="lifetimeinterest">{{cite news |last1=Sawer |first1=Patrick |last2=McNulty |first2=Bernadette |title=David Bowie's lifetime interest in Buddhism to culminate in Bali scattering of his ashes |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/12131199/Bowie-wanted-ashes-scattered-in-Bali.html |accessdate=24 September 2019 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=30 January 2016}}</ref> | Over the years, Bowie made numerous references to religions and to his evolving spirituality. Beginning in 1967, he became interested in [[wikipedia:Buddhism|Buddhism]] and considered becoming a Buddhist monk.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thurston Moore Reflects on David Bowie |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/62878-thurston-moore-reflects-on-david-bowie/ |accessdate=24 September 2019 |publisher=Pitchfork |date=12 January 2016}}</ref> After a few months' study at Tibet House in London, he was told by a [[wikipedia:Lama|Lama]], "You don't want to be Buddhist.{{nbsp}}... You should follow music."<ref name="newsday.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/stardust-memories-without-tibet-house-david-bowie-never-may-have-gotten-ziggy-with-it-now-the-pop-star-returns-the-favor-by-performing-at-the-annual-benefit-concert-1.396658|title=Stardust Memories – Without Tibet House, David Bowie never may have gotten Ziggy with it. Now the pop star returns the favor ...|work=[[wikipedia:Newsday|Newsday]]|accessdate=11 January 2016}}</ref> By 1975, Bowie admitted, "I felt totally, absolutely alone. And I probably was alone because I pretty much had abandoned God."<ref name=Arena1993>{{cite journal|last=Parsons|first=Tony|url=https://exploringdavidbowie.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/bowie-what-is-he-like/|title=Bowie, what is he like?|periodical=[[Arena (magazine)|Arena]]|volume=Spring/Summer 1993|via=Exploring David Bowie|accessdate=31 January 2016}}</ref> In his will, Bowie stipulated that he be [[wikipedia:Cremation|cremated]] and his ashes scattered in [[wikipedia:Bali|Bali]] "in accordance with the Buddhist rituals".<ref name="lifetimeinterest">{{cite news |last1=Sawer |first1=Patrick |last2=McNulty |first2=Bernadette |title=David Bowie's lifetime interest in Buddhism to culminate in Bali scattering of his ashes |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/12131199/Bowie-wanted-ashes-scattered-in-Bali.html |accessdate=24 September 2019 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=30 January 2016}}</ref> | ||
After Bowie married Iman in a private ceremony in 1992, he said they knew that their "real marriage, sanctified by God, had to happen in a church in Florence".<ref name=PJ>{{cite web |last=Johnson|first=Bridget|url=https://pjmedia.com/faith/2016/1/14/why-david-bowie-knelt-and-said-the-lords-prayer-at-wembley-stadium/|title=Why David Bowie Knelt and Said the Lord's Prayer at Wembley Stadium|work=[[wikipedia:PJ Media|PJ Media]]|date=13 January 2016|accessdate=18 January 2016}}</ref> Earlier that year, he knelt on stage at [[wikipedia:The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert|The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]] and recited the [[wikipedia:Lord's Prayer|Lord's Prayer]] before a television audience.<ref name="LA Times Mercury">{{cite news|first=Jeff|last=Kaye|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-22-ca-497-story.html|title=(Safe) Sex, (No) Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll : A Star-Filled Send-Off to Freddie Mercury|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=22 April 1992|accessdate=11 January 2016}}</ref> Four days later, Bowie and Iman were married in Switzerland. Intending to move to Los Angeles, they flew in to search for a suitable property, but found themselves confined to their hotel, under curfew: the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] began the day they arrived. They settled in New York instead.<ref>Buckley (2005): pp. 413–14</ref><!-- Per source: "with the potential to reach 1 billion viewers". -->{{efn|Asked why he knelt and prayed, Bowie said he had a friend who was dying of AIDS. "He was just dropping into a coma that day. And just before I went on stage something just told me to say the Lord's Prayer. The great irony is that he died two days after the show".<ref name=Arena1993/>}} In 1993, Bowie said he had an "undying" belief in the "unquestionable" existence of God.<ref name=Arena1993/> In a separate 1993 interview, while describing the genesis of the music for his album ''[[wikipedia:Black Tie White Noise|Black Tie White Noise]]'', he said " … it was important for me to find something [musically] that also had no sort of representation of institutionalized and organized religion, of which I'm not a believer, I must make that clear."<ref>[[wikipedia:Simon Bates|Simon Bates]] radio interviews, [[wikipedia:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1]], 29–31 March 1993</ref> Interviewed in 2005, Bowie said whether God exists "is not a question that can be answered.{{nbsp}}... I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm ''almost'' an atheist. Give me a couple of months.{{nbsp}}... I've nearly got it right.{{'"}}<ref name="DeCurtis2005">{{cite book|last=DeCurtis|first=Anthony|title=In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life And Work|url=https://archive.org/details/inotherwordsarti0000decu|url-access=registration|accessdate=14 May 2012|date=5 May 2005|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-634-06655-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/inotherwordsarti0000decu/page/262 262]–263}}</ref> | After Bowie married Iman in a private ceremony in 1992, he said they knew that their "real marriage, sanctified by God, had to happen in a church in Florence".<ref name=PJ>{{cite web |last=Johnson|first=Bridget|url=https://pjmedia.com/faith/2016/1/14/why-david-bowie-knelt-and-said-the-lords-prayer-at-wembley-stadium/|title=Why David Bowie Knelt and Said the Lord's Prayer at Wembley Stadium|work=[[wikipedia:PJ Media|PJ Media]]|date=13 January 2016|accessdate=18 January 2016}}</ref> Earlier that year, he knelt on stage at [[wikipedia:The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert|The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]] and recited the [[wikipedia:Lord's Prayer|Lord's Prayer]] before a television audience.<ref name="LA Times Mercury">{{cite news|first=Jeff|last=Kaye|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-22-ca-497-story.html|title=(Safe) Sex, (No) Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll : A Star-Filled Send-Off to Freddie Mercury|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=22 April 1992|accessdate=11 January 2016}}</ref> Four days later, Bowie and Iman were married in Switzerland. Intending to move to Los Angeles, they flew in to search for a suitable property, but found themselves confined to their hotel, under curfew: the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] began the day they arrived. They settled in New York instead.<ref>Buckley (2005): pp. 413–14</ref><!-- Per source: "with the potential to reach 1 billion viewers". -->{{efn|Asked why he knelt and prayed, Bowie said he had a friend who was dying of AIDS. "He was just dropping into a coma that day. And just before I went on stage something just told me to say the Lord's Prayer. The great irony is that he died two days after the show".<ref name=Arena1993/>}} In 1993, Bowie said he had an "undying" belief in the "unquestionable" existence of God.<ref name=Arena1993/> In a separate 1993 interview, while describing the genesis of the music for his album ''[[wikipedia:Black Tie White Noise|Black Tie White Noise]]'', he said " … it was important for me to find something [musically] that also had no sort of representation of institutionalized and organized religion, of which I'm not a believer, I must make that clear."<ref>[[wikipedia:Simon Bates|Simon Bates]] radio interviews, [[wikipedia:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1]], 29–31 March 1993</ref> Interviewed in 2005, Bowie said whether God exists "is not a question that can be answered.{{nbsp}}... I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm ''almost'' an atheist. Give me a couple of months.{{nbsp}}... I've nearly got it right.{{'"}}<ref name="DeCurtis2005">{{cite book|last=DeCurtis|first=Anthony|title=In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life And Work|url=https://archive.org/details/inotherwordsarti0000decu|url-access=registration|accessdate=14 May 2012|date=5 May 2005|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-634-06655-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/inotherwordsarti0000decu/page/262 262]–263}}</ref> | ||