Peaceful Offering Food Wooden Torma chod-drums The Life of the Tibetan

The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche

By Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Woven from thick ivory cotton

Gochen Tulku Sang Ngag Rinpoche

throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world

Peaceful Offering Food Wooden Torma chod-drums The Life of the TibetanPeaceful offerings are pleasing to the senses and thus enhance positive qualities. They create positive feelings by antidoting miserliness, thereby accumulating merit. This hand painted torma, called Zhiway Zhals, represents the offering of food from the outer peaceful offerings of drinking water, washing water, flowers, incense, light, perfumed water, food, and music (offered by playing musical instruments rather than as a substance on the shrine