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	Butter : Yaks, butter & lamps in Tibet
		Butter : Yaks, butter & lamps in Tibet
		Tibetans are warmed by yak-dung fires and lit by yak-butter lamps; they eat yak meat and yak blood, butter, cheese, and yoghurt; they use yaks for transport and weave clothing, blankets, shelters, and even boats out of yak hair.
		In the city, yak butter has an important use in ceremonies, as a fuel for butter lamps.
	webexhibits.org /butter/countries-tibet.html (825 words)

	Butter Lamps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Khyabje Kalu Rinpoche (d.1989) said that offerings are of three kinds in four levels: Material ones such as butter lamps, imaginary ones that proceed from our minds, and things which are primordially extant.
		Light is certainly one of the latter; butter one of the first.
		The flame seems to leap from lamp to lamp, but in effect, it is not really the same flame -- nor is it even the same flame from one moment to the next on the original candle, nor in any fire.
	www.khandro.net /ritual_offering_light.htm (532 words)

	Shea Butter: Fair Trade, Unrefined Shea Butter and African Black Soap
		Shea butter has many useful properties and has been traditionally used as a decongestant, an anti-inflammatory for sprains and arthritis, a healing salve for babies' umbilical cords, a lotion for hair and skin care, as cooking oil, and for lamp fuel.
		In central Togo, shea butter is applied to the skin and hair as a moisturizer and is also a main ingredient in traditional fl soaps.
		Most shea butter available to the general public outside West Africa is white and odorless, in other words it has been "refined" to remove the natural scent and color of natural shea butter.
	www.agbangakarite.com (852 words)

	China Trip 2000 - Part 10
		Butter lamps flickered everywhere and there were whole crews of monks, pilgrims, and people who evidently work at the temple, dedicated to keeping the butter lamps going.
		They'd wipe out the butter residue and polish the lamp then a little boy about 3 or 4 years old would run across the courtyard to where two old women refilled the lamp with butter from a huge bag.
		I couldn't communicate to her that what I really had was butter lamp sickness.
	world.std.com /~jegan/cmm010.htm (1380 words)

	Pink Lotus - Thangka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Butter Lamp brass plain 14cm To be found in every shrine in every Tibetan Buddhist temple this is a tr....
		Butter Lamp brass plain 6.5cm To be found in every shrine in every Tibetan Buddhist temple this is a traditional beautiful b....
		Butter Lamp brass plain 9.5cm To be found in every shrine in every Tibetan Buddhist temple this is a tradition....
	www.pinklotus.co.uk /shop.asp?cat=18 (156 words)

	Tibetan Butter Lamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This sacred lamp, also known as dipa, is made from copper with brass accents.
		Traditionally, it is fueled by a twist of cotton wicking and clarified butter.
		Lamp is even more beautiful than the photo can show.
	www.wildwisdom.net /butter_lamp.htm (83 words)

	Butter lamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Butter lamps are a conspicuous feature of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries throughout the Himalayas.
		The lamps traditionally burn clarified yak butter, but now often use vegetable oil.
		For safety, butter lamps are sometimes restricted to a separate courtyard enclosure with a stone floor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butter_lamp (192 words)

	Tibet Travel Information: Butter Sculpture
		The materials are mainly yak butter that is mixed with various mineral dyestuffs, which can be pinched into various lifelike and prolific patterns in coldness.
		Butter sculpture involves an enormous amount of manual work and can only be fashioned during the extremely cold days of winter.
		of the Tibetan Calendar, the brilliant Butter Lamp Festival is held in Lhasa.
	www.tibettrip.com /features/objects.htm (405 words)

	ANTIQUE COCKEREL BUTTER LAMP FROM INDIA
		This unique "lost-wax" bronze oil lamp from India dates from the mid to late 19th century.
		Traditionally, it would have been filled with ghee (oil of clarified butter) and used with a wick of simple cotton.
		The hand-fashioned wax coil construction of the lamp suggests that it is of tribal Bastar origin and the dark chocolate brown patina suggests good age.
	www.colonialarts.com /product.php?id=938 (126 words)

	A Blessed Pilgrimage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the Monastery of H.H. Karmapa I offered 100 butter lamps which happened to be all those on the table directly in front of the gigantic statue of His Holiness.
		I offered five butter lamps with 10 rupees as well as 50 rupees to the elderly nun who was chanting a sutra and had completed years of retreat in the cave up on the hill.
		I prostrated to the cave, lit five butter lamps on the table and left 10 rupees for the lamps.
	www.yogichen.org /efiles/pilgrimage.html (16733 words)

	Karma Triyana Dharmachakra -- Fund Raising
		Your donations will help to keep the lamp of dharma burning brightly at KTD so that multitudes of beings can continue to have their lives touched and transformed by teachings radiating from this source.
		By offering sincere prayers for the benefit of all being at the first light of each day, may people throughout the world turn their thoughts to world peace, happiness, and freedom from suffering.
		Because of the association with great good fortune, lamp offerings are made for any individual or family life event that is celebrated, such as the birth of a child, the marriage of a couple, the graduation of a son or daughter, the birthday of a friend, and the anniversary of one's parents.
	www.kagyu.org /ktd/fundraising/index.php (219 words)

	Buddhist Ritual Items - Tibetan Ritual Items - Butter Lamps, Phurba, Prayer Wheel, Vajra Ghanta, Tingshaw
		Butter Lamps, Damaru (The Double Sided Drum), Kapala (The Skull Cup), Mala (Bead), Phurba (Ritual Dagger), Prayer Wheel, Tingshaw (Tibetan Cymbals), Vajra Ghanta, Tibetan Incense, Offering Scarves (Khata or Kata), Offering Bowls, Tibetan Prayer Flags, Bhumpa, Mandala, Singing Bowls, Stupas, etc. are found in in our gallery.
		This Silver Polished Butter Lamp is a wonderful buter lamp is simple and disigned to hold it comfortably.
		This has very attractive design at the middle of the butter lamp which has been designed to look more beautiful and to hold it easily.
	www.himalayanmart.com /BuddhistRitualItems.php (993 words)

	Butter Cream Butterfly Lamp, Children's Lamps at RosenberryRooms.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Each lamp base is hand painted in multiple colors, which the artist devotes many hours to.
		This decorative lamp is custom made especially for you upon order.
		This lamp uses a 40 watt bulb and measures 24” Tall.
	www.rosenberryrooms.com /146-butter-cream-butterfly-lamp.html (176 words)

	Finding Religions- plenty of them- in Kuala Lumpur
		At the same time, another lady took a small butter lamp and lit it with an eternal flame in the center of the temple.
		She held up the lamp to one of the shrines and also seemed to be praying.
		The priest waved the butter lamps in front of the shrine and chanted for several minutes.
	www.jadedragon.com /articles/religions03.html (1061 words)

	Down Home Country Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The silicone bulb comes with the lamp, size is 10 1/2"tall x 6 1/2" wide -- you can hang this lamp on a wall or you can sit it on a table or shelf.
		This lamp looks great with fixens in the base, and I will include your choice of apple slices and cinnamon sticks or rosehips and cinnamon sticks.
		Here is the Mini Dazey Butter Churn Jar Lamp - it comes with a homespun fabric piece, a homespun tie, potpourri, and I have included a coated bulb.
	www.downhomecountrystore.com /store/WsDefault.asp?Cat=Lighting (315 words)

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		This lamp will be lit all the time before the image.
		Many times the protector Buddhas have their face covered with a cloth or a veil of some type, especially if it is the specific protector of that temple or monastary.
		It is also interesting to note that not all the Buddhas will have butter lamps infront of them because each Buddha has it's own appetite.
	www.stormloader.com /users/ruthie/buddhistimages.html (563 words)

	crystal singing bowls for healing, meditation, sound therapy, feng shui and more by Crystal Tones
		Project Butter Lamp was created as a way to support these types of schools, which provide high-quality education and housing to these students in these very remote and impoverished regions.
		Project Butter Lamp is currently up and running both in Tibet and Nepal.
		Crystal Tones supports Project Butter Lamp and has committed to providing ongoing financial support as a helping hand to bring more children into the boarding schools.
	www.crystalbowls.com /projectbutterlamp.htm (429 words)

	Tibetan Festivals, Tibetan New Year, Great Prayer Festival, Butter Lamp, Gyanste Horse Race & Archery, The World ...
		The lord of Neu Dzong a noted patron of Tsongkapa illuminated numerous butter –lamps in 1409.
		In his memory every household burns countless butter lamps on roof-tops and chant prayers in his honour.
		At night in every household traditional means of driving off evil sprits is carried on by burning bundles of straw by throwing rubbish on crossroad.
	www.intertours-nepal.com /tibet/tibet-festivals.html (505 words)

	Tibet festivals, festivals of tibet, tibet festival tours, festivals celebrates in tibet, tibet festival guide, tibet ...
		Various giant butter and Tsampa sculptures, in forms of auspicious symbols and figures, are displayed on Barkhor.
		The Butter Lamp Festival also known as "Tenga Choiba", which means "Enshrinement on the 15th day".
		Its common name is " Lantern Festival".Tsong Khapa Butter Lamp Festival falls on 25th day of the 10th Tibetan month, when myriads of butter lamps are lit on rooftops, and prayers are chanted, to memorize the passing away of Tsong Khapa who was a great religious reformer and adept in Buddhism.
	www.tibettravelinfo.com /tibet-festivals.htm (1101 words)

	Virtual Butter Lamps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the Tibetan tradition, lighting a butter lamp is a prayerful gesture of hope.
		Whether or not you are able to attend one of the many vigils being held around the world on May 17, 2005, show your support for Tibet's missing Panchen Lama and his family by lighting a virtual butter lamp of hope.
		Once you've lit your butter lamp, you'll find it below among the 6929 others lit by fellow Tibet supporters throughout the world.
	www.freepanchenlama.org /lamps/index.php (120 words)

	Tibetan Main Festivals - Tibet Travel Information
		The Butter Lamp Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month every year by the Tibetan in Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
		To honor the victory of Sakyamuni in a debate against Heretics,people assemble at the Barkhor Street in Lhasa, worshiping the Buddha in the daytime and by nightfall.
		Every house and every monastery hold light lamps on the roofs of their houses and windowsills chanting prayers in memory of Tsongkapa in the night.
	www.tibettravel.info /tibet-festival (1043 words)

	Tibet Festival, Tibetan Festivals
		Torches and fireworks are lit to scare them off, and family members will walk along a road until they reach a crossroad where they believing they can abandon the evil spirits, the spirits being unable of finding the way back to the dwelling they had occupied.
		day, local people will make butter lamps to be sacrificed, along with grain, to their gods.
		The Butter Lamp Festival is believed to be the happiest festival in Tibet.
	www.tibettrip.com /festivals.htm (946 words)

	Tibet festivals, Festival in Tibet, tibet festival, tibet festival, tibetan new year, saga dawa festival, great prayer ...
		The Butter lamp Festival falls on January 15 of the Tibetan calendar, which has its origin in a celebration with many butter lamps to honor the victory of Sakyamuni in a debate against Heretics.
		Tsong Khapa's Festival, falling on the 15th of the tenth month of the Tibetan calendar, marks the anniversary of the passing away of Tsong Khapa, the founder of Gelukpa Sect, died on this day in 1419 and is called Ganden Angchuin in Tibetan.
		In Menory of the day every house hold burns countless butter lamps on roof tops and chant prayers in his honor, late in the evening, Tibetan dumpling is served for supper.
	www.friendshipnepal.com /tibet/festivals.php (1245 words)

	Tibetan Copper Butter Lamp 6"
		This Tibetan Copper Butter Lamp is made of copper with brass accents.
		Traditionally these lamps are fueled by a twist of cotton wicking and clarified butter or "ghee".
		This Tibetan Copper Butter Lamp measures 6 inches tall and 4 inches wide.
	www.somaluna.com /product.asp?p=764 (88 words)

	Tibet Useful Information - China Highlights Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He keeps adding aromatic poplar and pine sprigs, barley flour and butter to the fire and spreads out sacrificial food, such as fried kasai (a kind of flour food), dried fruit and fruit candies.
		They bring hadas, buttered zanba cakes (square-or-round- shaped refreshment made of zanba, melted butter, fine cheese flour and brown sugar), legs of sheep, clothes or cloth for every member of the family and betrothal money.
		And on that night, the family with whom the newlyweds will settle down will dispatch a team of two or three people with sharp tongues, together with a well-decorated horse to be the transportation of the bride or bridegroom.
	www.chinahighlights.com /tibet/usefulinfo.htm (3064 words)

	Mitrani & Co. - Lamps
		Oversize Wide Lamp on rust finishstand shown with burlap shade - 26" diameter, total height 54-60".
		Small Pottery Lamp shown with faux leather shade - 16" diameter.
		Weathered wooden hubs taken from old wagon wheels are used as the base for hese handsome lamps that provide a rustic accent to any décor.
	www.mitraniandcompany.com /lamps (89 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu
		At a ceremony in Brussels, he presented a Tibetan butter lamp to the Herge Foundation representing Tintin books.
		He also presented a lamp and silk scarf to fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Tutu of South Africa.
		The Dalai Lama draped a silk scarf around the archbishop's neck and presented him with a Tibetan butter lamp: the Light of Truth Award from the International Campaign for Tibet.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/5040198.stm (780 words)

	Tibetan Festivals
		In Lhasa, an offering carefully crafted from butter and over 10m-high was put in the Jokhang Temple, where most of the monks from the monasteries around Lhasa would gather and hold the 'Monlam Chenmo' or 'Great Prayer Festival'.
		This festival was banned during the Cultural Revolution and although it was revived once in 1985, it has was once again prohibited in 1990, maybe because the festival encourages Tibetan identity too strongly.
		Houses, streets, and temples are lit by numerous lamps and it is also known as the 'Tsongkhapa Butter Lamp Festival'.
	www.kotan.org /tibet/festivals.html (1472 words)

	The Vajrayana Foundation - Light Offering
		Just as a lamp dispels darkness, offering light from a butter lamp represents removing the darkness of ignorance in order to attain Buddha’s luminous clear wisdom.
		When we offer light, the results are the realization of Clear Light wisdom phenomena in this life; the clarification of dualistic mind and the dispersal of confusion and realization of Clear Light in the bardo; and the increase of wisdom in each lifetime until one has reached enlightenment.
		Traditionally, butter lamps are also offered as a dedication to the dead in order to guide them through the bardo by wisdom light.
	www.vajrayana.org /lightoffering_teaching.html (307 words)

	DharmaShop Tibetan Buddhist ritual items - prayer flags - mala beads - Thangkas - Gifts
		Traditionally the lamp is filled with oil or butter and a wick (or several wicks) would be kept burning all day.
		For safety and convenience I use a tea light in my butter lamp.
		The metal of the lamp adds a soft glow to your altar.
	www.dharmashop.com /details.mgi?NUM=rl002 (70 words)

	Butter Lamp - Home & Garden - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
		Distinctive Lamp with Washington Butter Shade is ceramic in a creamy yellow finish complimented by a matching shade in Washington Butter with red fringe.
		Butter creme colored glass serves as the backdrop for this romantic, Art Deco lamp.
		This lamp, has six panels, framed in water glass featuring multi colored hearts.
	www.nextag.com /butter-lamp/search-html (374 words)

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