Buddhist Butter Lamp | Ritual Items | Handmade Vintage Lamp

Vintage Buddhist Butter Lamp

Our butter lamp is entirely made by hand hammering and silver-plating is done by electroplating. It is engraved and hand-carved with various auspicious symbols providing its own symbolization. Many designs are made in the lamp to give it a more vintage look.

Once the butter lamp is lit, the person would focus on the flickering flame and realize how impermanent life is, how everything including the butter lamp is interdependent. The chalice has to hold the butter, the butter has to be of the right temperature, the wick of the right material and texture, the butter has to flow up through the wick and then some source of fire to trigger the flame. The whole combination of things, giving rise to light, reminds one of the theory of dependence, which is a central Buddhist concept.

After lighting the butter lamp, there are lots of prayers one can chant. The most popular of all is the marmé mönlam.

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Size: 17 cm(Height) and 13 cm(Base)
Weight: 0.470 kg
Materials: Copper Body, Silver Plated
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