Carved Bronze Bhumpa 19cm

Carved Bronze Bhumpa 19cm. The Bhumpa is a vase for personal Buddhist practice. Bhumpa are traditionally used during initiation of powers and rituals.

Each altar needs water for the offering bowls. This Bhumpa is filled with water to be added to the offering bowls every morning.

These Bhumpa are the finest examples of high quality ritual instruments created in Nepal in the purest tradition of Tibetan Buddhist rituals.

The Bhumpa, or Ritual Vessel, is an important ceremonial item used to hold holy water that has been blessed by the Guru. Holy water is believed to remove negativity and drive away evil spirits, and is sprinkled or poured to purify people, places or objects. Bhumpas are widely used by Gurus in many types of ceremonies, from elaborate purification rituals for new houses, monuments and holy places, to simple blessings for disciples intended to purify and protect them from harmful forces. Bhumpas may also be used by practitioners to make water offerings; in these cases, the water is regarded as pure nectar.

A ritual object, like any instrument of religious practice, should be respected with circumspection. We remind you here of some ethical rules:

• Ritual objects are objects of practice that have the power to protect us and to help us on the path to liberation. Therefore, they should be treated with respect, i.e. kept off the floor and away from places where people sit or walk or dirty places.
• At external ritual times, objects must be protected by an appropriate holster for resting and/or carrying and not mixed, for example, with dirty or soiled equipment / objects.
• Ritual objects are not decorative objects. To acquire a ritual object, it is underlying that you want to use it for your practice, so you must dedicate a privileged place where it will remain outside the moments of practice.
• If you no longer wish to keep your ritual object, do not throw it away! Please contact your nearest Buddhist Centre and make a donation. By doing so, this object will give you merit until the end of your relationship.

These are some non-exhaustive rules of Buddhist ethics that you are free to respect or not.

Measures approximately 19cm in height. Feather not included.

Made of copper and brass in Nepal.