Images of Sera Monastery
Caption: Pilgrims make offerings and request prayers
Photographer: Taline Goorjian
Description: Lay people make offering to the monks during the burnt offering ritual. They request that their butter, either the melted butter from a butter lamp, or a separate offering of butter, be mixed with the general offering of butter that the monks use during the ritual, so that they can partake in the merit of the ritial.
Description Creator: Jose Cabezon
File Name: D30149