Beautifuly etched and polished 4 inch traditonal brass offering bowls. Approximatley 25 years old and in impeccable condition!

Traditionally, offering bowls are used as part of a Tibetan Buddhist altar ritual, often filled with water as a means of attracting merit and virtue. This is also an effective means of cultivating generosity, as water can be given freely without clinging. Alternatively, the bowls can be filled with a variety of substances and objects that symbolize the traditional offerings of drinking and washing water, flowers, incense, light, perfume, food, and music. One visualizes each of the substances expanding infinitely throughout space as an offering to one's object of refuge.