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Concept
Offering (Buddhism)
Résumé
In Buddhism, symbolic offerings are made to the Triple Gem, giving rise to contemplative gratitude and inspiration. Typical material offerings involve simple objects such as a lit candle or oil lamp, burning incense, flowers, food, fruit, water or drinks.
Within the traditional Buddhist framework of karma and rebirth, offerings lead to the accumulation of merit, which leads to:
a better rebirth in the cycle of birth and death (Pali: vattagamini-kusala)
progress towards release from suffering (Pali: vivattagamini-kusala).
These offerings often act as preparation for meditation.
In some traditions, two different types of offerings are identified:
material or hospitality offerings (Pali: amisa-puja or sakkara-puja)
practice offerings (Pali: patipatti-puja)
Material offerings are considered external offerings of "words and deeds." Material offerings nurture generosity (Pali:dāna) and virtue (Pali: sīla). The act further honors the Triple Gem (the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha), deepening one's commitment to the Buddha's path.
Material offerings might be imbued with the following symbology:
the lighting of a candle or an oil lamp represents the light of wisdom illuminating the darkness of ignorance.
the burning of incense represents the fragrant scent of morality.
flowers represents the aspiration to achieve the body of the Buddha with the thirty-two marks of the Buddha as well as the teaching of impermanence. Alternately, a Zen verse expresses the desire for the mind's "flowers" to "bloom in the springtime of enlightenment."
food, fruit, water, drinks represents the nectar of Dharma and the wish to achieve it.
Traditional chants in Pali, when offering lit candles (padīpa pūjā) and incense (sugandha pūjā) to an image of the Buddha are:
Similarly, a traditional Pali incense-lighting verse speaks of the Buddha's "fragrant body and fragrant face, fragrant with infinite virtues."
By contemplating on an offering, one tangibly sees life's impermanence (Pali: anicca), one of the three characteristics of all things upon which the Buddha encouraged his disciplines to recollect.
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