༆ཚེ་རིང་བོད་ཀྱི་བཟོ་རིགས་སློབ་གྲྭ།
TSERING ART SCHOOL
Shechen institute of Traditional Tibetan Art
Shechen incense
Incense is an offering of fragrant perfume, but it is also used to purify a place and create an environment conducive to meditation. Shechen incense is made according to the ancestral Mindroling Tradition of Tibet. The ingredients are all 100% natural and herbal. They chiefly comprise wild plants gathered at high altitude in the Himalayas, which have been selected and processed with the utmost care. The recipe is centuries old, and comes from ancient Buddhist systems of medicine and astrology.
Part of Tibetan Buddhist ritual involves making external offerings to the Buddhas, the embodiments of the enlightened mind, as inspiration to realizing this potential in our own minds, which is also the potential of every sentient being. Incense is an offering of fragrant perfume to the sense of smell. The sacred ingredients are also considered to bring blessings and help purify our mind stream and create an inner environment of mental peace conducive to meditation.
Shechen Incense Products
There are three qualities of offering incense available for purchase, as well as an incense used specifically for ‘Sur’ practice (Sur-po) and a special powdered substance called Sang-druk which is used for filling statues and stupas. All proceeds made from the incense workshop goes towards supporting the art school and Shechen Monastery.
Shechen Red Incense
This incense is handmade at the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery of Shechen, in Nepal. The recipe comes from the ancient and rare ancestral tradition of incense making from the Mindroling monastery in Tibet, which is famed for the authenticity and purity of all its ritual arts. Part of Tibetan Buddhist ritual involves making external offerings to the Buddhas, the embodiments of the enlightened mind, as inspiration to realizing this potential in our own minds, which is also the potential of every sentient being.
Shechen Blue Incense
This is another quality of offering incense with the same ingredient as the red incense, but less concentration of red sandalwood and mixed with the best quality Juniper.
Shechen Riwo Sangcho
Riwo Sangcho is used by the Buddhists as a pure and sacred offering to the sense of smell, whereby it is said to be able to not only please Buddhas and Guardian deities, but also to satiate the ordinary beings from the six realms and pacify demons and obstacle makes.
This Riwo sangcho is carefully prepared according to ancient Tibetan tradition. Its ingredients include some kind of materials like (Red sandal, white sandal) and special sacred substance, which are all the precisely combined in order to make this supreme offering.
Shechen Surpoe
Sur is used by the Buddhist as a pure and sacred offering to the sense of the smell, where by it is said to be able to not only please Buddhas and Guardian deities, but also to satiate the ordinary beings from the six realms and pacify demons and obstacle makes.
This Sur is cleanly and carefully prepared according to ancient Tibetan tradition. Its ingredients include the “three white things”(Yoghurt, milk and butter) the three sweet things (molasses, honey and sugar); the six medicinal spices; barley flour and special, sacred substance, which are all precisely combined in order to make this supreme offering.
Riwo Sangcho Incense Powder
"Riwo Sangcho is a pure and sacred fragrant smoke offering to the enlightened beings and guardian deities. It will also please the beings of the six realms, local deities, and pacify demons and obstacle makers.
This Riwo Sangcho is made at Shechen Monastery in Nepal according to ancient Tibetan tradition. It is made only from natural herbal substances; fragrant woods, aromatic medicinal plants, white and sweet substances combined with blessed sacred herbal substances that are precisely combined in order to make this supreme offering."
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