Nimu Tibetan incense production raw materials

Nimu County Tumba Township is the hometown of the founder of the Tibetan language Tunmi Sangbuzha, the township production of Tibetan incense technology is by Tunmi Sangbuzha in the seventh century A.D. when taught. Nyima incense is known as the first holy incense in Tibet. Its formula is secret, said to have more than 30 kinds of Tibetan medicine formulated, the production process is long and rigorous. As the hometown of Tunmi Sambhuzha, Tumba Village is the handmade production place of Nyamu holy incense. The villagers here have received the true transmission of Tunmi Sambhuzha, and they are meticulous in the procedure of making Tibetan incense.

The raw materials and production process of Tibetan incense are extremely demanding. Because the main use of Tibetan incense is used in religious rituals, so in the production process requires everything to be holy, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful to the gods. Traditional Tibetan incense raw materials are numerous and complex, generally cypress trunks as the main material, and then saffron, musk, white sandalwood, red sandalwood, purple sandalwood, incense, cardamom, andrographis paniculata, glycyrrhiza glabra, ice chips, myrrh and other dozens of spices according to the appropriate proportion of the main material with the rubbing and become. It is understood that the main material used in the production of Tibetan incense cypress trunks, in the village of Tumba such high-altitude places and not grow, the villagers have to be transported from more than 400 kilometers away from Linzhi County, and the production of Tibetan incense part of the auxiliary materials and even to introduce from India.