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གཏོར་མ། | Glossary of Terms
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གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
- Term
- bali
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
An offering made to a deity or spirits; bali may be elaborate with food, incense, lamps, etc., but this term may also denote, in the MMK at least, a sacrificial cake similar to the Tibetan torma.
- bali
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
Ritual oblation offered into the fire.
- bali
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
An offering of food; unlike homa, bali is not offered into the fire but is placed on the altar and later eaten or distributed.
- bali
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
An offering of edibles to nonhuman beings, usually including lower orders of spirits.
- oblation
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
An offering of edibles to a deity or spirit.
- oblation
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
A ritual offering of food and drink.
- oblation
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
An offering of food items made to deities or spirits. Such an oblation may be elaborate and use multiple kinds of food articles, or it may simply be a ritual cake.
- oblation
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
A food offering made to a deity or spirits; such an offering may be varied and elaborate, or may be a simple sacrificial cake.
- cast offering
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
An offering, originating in the vedic tradition, traditionally made out of uncooked food and performed at the home prior to cooking a meal by arranging portions of the ingredients and then casting them outside or into the sacred fire. Also translated here as “uncooked offering.”
- uncooked offering
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
An offering, originating in the vedic tradition, traditionally made out of uncooked food and performed at the home prior to cooking a meal by arranging portions of the ingredients and then casting them outside or into the sacred fire. Also translated here as “cast offering.”