Wooden Bowl- Inseparable Thing in Tibetan’s Life

Tibetans usually carry with them on journeys, especially lamas. They often take their own wooden bowls with them when they travel and carry the bowl in a pocket. The pocket is always in the front of their sheep or polu woolen robes. It is said that, the largest wooden bowl can hold 2.3 kilograms of buttered tea.
When Tibetan people died, their family will fill the wooden bowl that they used with buttered tea and place it before the corpse. In this way to show their wish to the dead person, and hope their spirit can get a safe voyage.

Tibetan wooden bowls even can serve as some other functions, such as hold money or other things.
Now that, the china bowls have become popular, but most Tibetans still use wooden bowl in their daily life.
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