Tibetan Buddhist Butter Lamp | Silver Plated Altar Offering Vessel
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Size: 18.5cm(Height) x 13cm(Diameter)
Base: 8.5cm
Inner Depth: 6cm
Single Weight: 0.38kg
Total Weight: 0.79 kg
Materials: White Metal with Silver Plating
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About Our Product
This Sacred Buddhist Butter Lamp Set features two matching traditional offering lamps, each measuring 18.5 cm in height and 13 cm in diameter, with an 8.5 cm base and 6 cm inner depth. Each lamp weighs 0.38 kg, while the set weighs 0.79 kg in total. Crafted from white metal with silver plating, the lamps feature broad offering bowls with finely ridged borders, ornate stems, and sculpted pedestal bases. The balanced proportions and detailed raised ornamentation give each lamp a refined traditional Himalayan appearance.
In Tibetan Buddhist practice, the butter lamp symbolizes the light of wisdom and the dispelling of ignorance. Offering a flame is traditionally associated with cultivating clarity, understanding, and positive intentions. The broad upper vessel provides space for the traditional lamp offering, while the elevated decorative stem and pedestal create a graceful presentation on an altar. Fine ridges and ornamental detailing throughout the bowls and bases add traditional character to these ritual vessels.
This Buddhist butter lamp set is suitable for home altars, Buddhist shrines, meditation rooms, prayer spaces, monasteries, and ceremonial settings. This product is available as a variation, allowing you to purchase either a single lamp or the complete pair, depending on your altar arrangement or offering needs. Whether displayed individually or together as a symmetrical pair, these silver-plated lamps bring the symbolism of wisdom and illumination into a sacred space.
Introduction to Butter Lamp
The whole process of offering a butter lamp is also a very spiritual practice. The traditional practice of preparing a butter lamp starts by washing one’s hand, wearing a mask to protect from contaminating the butter lamp through one’s breath, making the wick out of pure cotton, and cleaning the chalices with a clean piece of cloth reserved for this or fresh mosses from the trees, which was commonly used in old times. The whole process is a meditative spiritual practice that engages a person physically and mentally if they know and practices it according to the norms.
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