Bronze offering bowl

Museum number:
9-21953
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
BY.T-165 and T-165 (original number)
Description:
Here is one bronze offering bowl. Offering bowls are used for making daily offerings to the images of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha on a Buddhist altar. Normally seven bowls are offered on an altar. They are typically filled with water, but the water symbolizes the seven offerings: water for drinking, water for washing, anointments, flowers, incense, lamps, and food.See also T-16, T-17, T-115, T-116.
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Bronze (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Production date:
19th-20th century
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bronze offering bowl, accession number 9-21953, described as Here is one bronze offering bowl. Offering bowls are used for making daily offerings to the images of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha on a Buddhist altar. Normally seven bowls are offered on an altar. They are typically filled with water, but the water symbolizes the seven offerings: water for drinking, water for washing, anointments, flowers, incense, lamps, and food.See also T-16, T-17, T-115, T-116.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bronze offering bowl, accession number 9-21953, described as Here is one bronze offering bowl. Offering bowls are used for making daily offerings to the images of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha on a Buddhist altar. Normally seven bowls are offered on an altar. They are typically filled with water, but the water symbolizes the seven offerings: water for drinking, water for washing, anointments, flowers, incense, lamps, and food.See also T-16, T-17, T-115, T-116.

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