Offering bowls

Museum number:
9-21937a-f
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210921937a@2df
Alternate number:
BY.T-116a-f (previous number) and T-116a-f (original number)
Description:
Six bronze offering bowls 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 See: Photo T-16
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Bronze (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Production date:
19th-20th century
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Offering bowls, accession number 9-21937a-f, described as Six bronze offering bowls 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 See: Photo T-16

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