Making Offerings

Additional Resources

Practice Texts

• Extensive Offering Practice, extracted from Extensive Offering Practice to Accumulate the Most Extensive Merit, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 

• Extensive Offering Practice to Accumulate the Most Extensive Merit, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 

• Flower Offering Practice, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Suggested Readings

• The Preliminary Practice of Altar Set-up & Water Bowl Offerings: this short text provides a complete explanation of how to set up a personal altar, how to make water bowl offerings, and how to offer them in the most extensive and beneficial way

• If You Offer Even One Water Bowl with Bodhichitta: A short letter from Lama Zopa Rinpoche to students in Mongolia who make extensive water bowl offerings every day 

Verses to Inspire Offerings

An offering prayer composed and arranged by Lama Zopa Rinpoche that can be displayed in places where there are extensive offerings, including on your own altar.

FPMT Online Programs on Related Topics

Living in the Path

• Taking the Essence, "Offering Food and Drink"

Discovering Buddhism

Module 8: Establishing a Daily Practice