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How can I wipe the blackness from the glass oil lamps for the gods?

Glass oil lamp gods oil lamp with black with satin can wipe clean. Glass oil lamp for God is ghee lamp, that is, the use of ghee as a source of combustion of oil lamps, mostly in the Mongolian and Tibetan areas. Oil lamps also include vegetable oil lamps, candlesticks, and later kerosene lamps.

Early Mongolia and Tibet outside the region with vegetable oil lamps. Although there are many styles of oil lamps fueled by ghee and vegetable oil, there is no fundamental difference in the structure of the glass oil lamps, if there is a black inside, you can use satin to wipe clean.

The significance of the glass oil lamp

The glass oil lamp is very important in the hearts of Tibetan Buddhist believers, and it is not too much to compare the glass oil lamp to the spiritual lamp of the believers. At the end of life, if there is no glass oil lamp, the soul will be confused in the darkness.

The glass oil lamp is the use of ghee as a burning source of oil lamps, mostly found in Mongolia and Tibet, has a long history. The ghee in it is extracted repeatedly from the fat of milk or goat's milk. Ghee is solid at room temperature, the color is mostly milky yellow, and goat's milk is milky white, ghee lamp burning fire is stable, milk fragrance, is one of the indispensable magic weapon of the people of Mongolia and Tibet to worship the gods.

Recently part of the production of religious artifacts business in order to save production costs, the use of oil from plants refined as vegetable glass oil lamps, which is confusing practice. Peanuts out of peanut oil, soybean out of soybean oil, castor out of castor oil and so on.