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Sur, burnt offering [RY]

Tibetan custom to be offered to those in the bardo...smoke of tsampa mixed w three whites and three reds or whites reds tea etc [IW]

burnt offerings. Smoke produced by burning flour mixed with pure food and sacred substances. This smoke, offered during a meditation on Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, can nourish the bardo consciousness as well as hungry ghosts [RY]

burnt offering [RB]