Tibetan Butter-Lamp Offering Traditions in Contemporary China
- Date of account
- 1990s–2009 religious and ethnographic documentation
- Location
- Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan cultural areas of China
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Butter lamps are a major luminous devotional motif in Tibetan Buddhist practice, used in temples, household observance, and pilgrimage contexts. Documentation during the stated period records offerings, merit-making, festival use, and changing conditions of religious practice. The lead supports comparison between sacred fire, illumination, vows, and cosmological ideas without treating ritual light as a paranormal incident. Researchers should attend to differences between monastic liturgy, household practice, tourist representation, and the political conditions under which sources were produced.
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