Anyone who can kill a walking blasphemy like me gains great spiritual merit, I understand.

Yet another style of chorten is supported on two pillars, under which people pass to gain merit.

By circumambulating a stupa, a person is said to gain merit and drive off negative forces.

Pilgrims bang on the usual row of temple bells to gain merit.

No man gains so little merit or enjoyment from the charity he gives as does a bourgeois.

He also provided the laity with many opportunities for gaining merit.

Most people donate food to the monks to gain merit and improve their karma.

It is a way of gaining merit and considered good luck to do this in Thai Buddhist culture.

You fire at the barricade and think to gain merit by it..

Others come to gain religious merit, the currency of the hereafter, or for therapeutic reasons.