A THOUSAND-FOLD OFFERING RITUAL by Gser mo mtsho གསེར་མོ་མཚོ།

<p>A THOUSAND-FOLD OFFERING RITUAL&nbsp;by Gser mo mtsho&nbsp;གསེར་མོ་མཚོ།</p> <p>A Thousand-Fold Offering Ritual&nbsp;was held by monks at my home in&nbsp;Ban ser Community, Mgo mang (Guomaying) Township, Mang rdzong (Guinan) County, Mstho Lho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mstho sngon (Qinghai) Province, PR China&nbsp;on Thursday, May 25, 2023. This involved offering butter lamps, holy water, incense, prostrations, and circumambulation, with each activity being performed a thousand times.&nbsp;</p> <p>Stong mchod&nbsp;is an important spiritual practice helping practitioners overcome their fears and attachments, purify negative karma, and develop compassion and wisdom.&nbsp;The primary purpose of this ritual was to assist my sick grandmother, a devout Buddhist. Despite receiving medical treatment, her condition did not improve, so my family sought hope and healing from religious practice. My family invited 6 monks from Klu tshang Monastery to conduct the ritual. My family gave 300 RMB and offered&nbsp;<em>kha btags</em>&nbsp;&#39;a strip of silk&#39;. The total cost of the ritual was approximately 4,000 RMB.</p> <p>TIBETAN TERMS</p> <p>ban ser&nbsp;བན་སེར།</p> <p>klu tshang&nbsp;ཀླུ་ཚང་།</p> <p>kha btags&nbsp;ཁ་བཏགས།</p> <p>mang rzong&nbsp;མང་རྫོང&nbsp;་།</p> <p>mgo mang&nbsp;མགོ་མང&nbsp;་།</p> <p>mtso lho&nbsp;མཚོ་ལྷོ&nbsp;།</p> <p>mtso sngon&nbsp;མཚོ་སྔོན&nbsp;།</p> <p>sha rgya&nbsp;ཤ་རྒྱ&nbsp;།</p> <p>stong mchod&nbsp;སྟོང་མཆོད&nbsp;།</p> <p>CHINESE TERMS</p> <p>Guinan&nbsp;贵南</p> <p>Guomaying&nbsp;过马营</p> <p>Hainan&nbsp;海南</p>