Peaceful Offering Food Wooden Torma chod-drums throws down the gauntlet to

throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world

Not only did he show me how I could become confident in their existence through awareness and meditation

Woven from thick ivory cotton

Gochen Tulku Sang Ngag Rinpoche

The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche

Peaceful Offering Food Wooden Torma chod-drums throws down the gauntlet toPeaceful 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