Set of 7 Tibetan offering bowls

Description

Product details:

Another set of 7 nice offering bowls. These bowls are made from tombac (copper and alloy) and embossed with gold. The cups are thick and strong and are intricately engraved and decorated with Ashtamangala (Eight Auspicious symbols) such as golden fish, umbrella, Dharma wheel etc. The metal is strong enough for oxidation, so these bowls will serve for many years.

Specification:

Composition: tombac (copper & alloy) embossed with gold.

Size: diameter 7cm, height 4cm

General info:

Offering bowls are an essential part of any alter or shrine. You are making offers to the Buddha and the bodhisattva’s. Each bowl represents a specific offering. Once made they help all other sentient beings as described bellow.

Water for drinking for those in the lower realms that suffer from thirst
Water to bath wash away negativity and obstacles
Flowers to benefit those making the offering
Incense to aid in the realization of the profound of discipline. It has been said that those that have perfected discipline is surrounded by a sweet fragrance
Lamp to lighten the path to enlightenment
Perfume is so negative patterns caused by The Three Poisons can be purified
Food to help those starving and that we begin to understand that meditation is the food we can all survive on
Music to please the sense of the deities