Representing Great Compassion and Wisdom, these tantric instruments are used during pujas and religious ceremonies. The vajra invokes the deities and dakinis; the bell welcomes them with heavenly music…

It is said, in the second chapter of the Root Tantra of Chakrasamvara: If you wish for sublime realization, offer hundreds of lights…

Chakras contain a piece of paper, adorned with saffron, which has diagrams, mantras and prayers written on it. These specifically invoke the body, speech and mind energies of the Buddhas…

A ghau is a portable shrine in which an image of the owners’ personal deity is kept wrapped in silk cloth…

Offering jewellery on Buddha images accumulates merit, creates the causes for wealth and money, and to be beautiful from inside out through transformation of negative qualities to the selfless wish to benefit others…

The kapala symbolizes cutting through the identification with our body and its endless wants and needs by remembering death – impermanence…