These beautiful 3.25 inches in diameter, 2 inches height Offering Bowls are made of iron, with cloisonne-like designs.  The sets are sold as 8 pieces.This is a great set for an altar and use with a 24 Hour Destroying Incense Burner.

Offering bowls are an essential part of any altar or shrine. You are making offers to the Buddha and the Bodhisattva's. Each bowl represents a specific offering. Once made they help all other sentient beings as described bellow.

• Water for drinking for those in the lower realms that suffer from thirst
• Water to bath wash away negativity and obstacles
• Flowers to benefit those making the offering
• Incense to aid in the realization of the profound of discipline. It has been said that those that have perfected discipline is surrounded by a sweet fragrance
• Lamp to lighten the path to enlightenment
• Perfume is so negative patterns caused by The Three Poisons can be purified
• Food to help those starving and that we begin to understand that meditation is the food we can all survive on
• Music to please the sense of the deities.