Light and incense offering
The offering of light and incense to the *Three Jewels and Three Roots is considered an act of generosity, which accumulates good karmic merit. Offered with prayer, mantra and mudrฤ – as calligraphed here in Umรฉ script, with a brushed fire like word ฤloka, of light offering and swirling smoke like word dhลซpa of incense offering. This is accompanied with further offering prays and mantra.
The *accumulations of merit เฝเฝฆเฝผเฝเผเฝเฝเฝฆเผ is generated through the first five of the six paramitas and the sixth to the accumulation of wisdom – เฝเผเฝขเฝผเฝฃเผเฝเฝดเผเฝเพฑเฝฒเฝเผเฝเผเฝเพฒเฝดเฝเผ six transcendent perfections – แนฃaแนญpฤramitฤ in Sanskrit.
These are listed as:
- Generosity: to cultivate the attitude of generosity.
- ย Discipline: refraining from harm.
- Patience: the ability not to be perturbed by anything.
- Diligence: to find joy in what is virtuous, positive or wholesome.
- Meditative concentration: not to be distracted.
- Wisdom: the perfect discrimination of phenomena, all knowable things.
The sixth paramitas can be sub-divided into four, resulting in ten paramitas.
*Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and Lama, Yidam, Dharma Protectors.
* of the essential Two Accumulations
Created for and featured in ‘Sacred Scripts’ – A Meditative Journey Through Tibetan calligraphy.
Sumi ink on water-colour paper. Dimensions 76 x 57 cm. Created 2016
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