gsol mchod

verses of offering and invocation; petition-offering; usually to Dharma protectors [RY]

• religious ritual/ offering, pay respect and homage to the dead [IW]

prayer and offerings, invocation [JV]

petition-offering [RY]

1) invocatory offering, offering of invocation; 2) supplicatory offering, offering of supplication; 3) petitionary offering, offering of petition; 4) prayer offering, offering of prayer; 5) entreating offering, offering of entreaty (gsol ba'i mchod pa, usually where Deities or Dharma Protectors are invoked, offerings are made to them, and their specific activities and benefits are requested) [Erick Tsiknopoulos]