nang-mchod

nang-mchod

▪ Tibetan Buddhist rite
(Tibetan: “internal worship”),also called  Offerings Of The Five Senses,  

      in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies, pleasurable sense perceptions presented to honour tranquil deities. The offerings include a mirror (to please the sense of form, or sight); a bell or stringed musical instrument (hearing); incense, nutmeg, or scented flower (smell); sugar, a conch filled with curds, or the sacrificial cake gtor-ma (taste); and a piece of silk cloth (touch). The texts refer also to a sixth sense, that of mind, which does not usually figure in a ceremony but which may be honoured by offering a page of scripture.

      The offerings of the five senses made to wrathful Tantric deities consist of a skull cup ( kapāla) containing a heart, tongue, nose, pair of eyes, and pair of ears. The texts refer to these offerings as human organs, but the offerings presented in actual ceremonies are molded replicas of those organs made from barley flour and butter, and realistically coloured and shaped.

      The nang-mchod are distinguished from the phyi-mchod (q.v.), eight similar offerings that are considered “external worship.”

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