These beautiful 3.25 inches in diameter offering bowls that are from glazed crystal. They come 7 to a set and are lotus shaped.

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.

You fill the cups with water everyday from left to right, and in the evening pour the water out of the cups from right to left. Dry them, and then turn them over. Pour the used water on plants, the yard, never throw it down the toilet or sink. You can also use real flowers, incense, and a small vile of perfume, food and something musical in the appropriate cupss. All others you can fill with water. Remember water is always acceptable for any cup. Food and flowers need to go when they start to decay. You can also use torma’’s which are statues of flowers, incense, and food that are put in the corresponding cups; you don’t have to take them ever out of the cups. You see these often in dharma centers.

At the very center is Amitabha and the Expedience Dharma Gate (Benefit of his Guidance). On the east side is Great Action of Samantabhadra and the Arousal of Mind Dharma Gate (Answering Supplications). On the south side are Great Wisdom of Manjushri and the Discipline Dharma Gate (Follow the teachings teachings and actions). On the west side is Great Compassion of Chenrezig and the Bodhi Dharma Gate (Enlightenment by way of the teachings of the Buddha). On the north side is the Great Hope of Nyingpo and the Nirvana Dharma Gate (Unborn and Undying). They form the Five Amitabha Honored Ones.

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