Lamp offering in Tibetan is called “Donme” which means removal of dark ignorance and strengthen the light of the wisdom. The cup of the lamp symbolizes emptiness while the oil symbolizes the five paths and the light represents wisdom.

Again, the lamp offering cup is a symbol of primordial pureness, while oil represents the four types of light, that is “the paths that allow direct perception of the enlightened body of the inseparable reality and awareness at the actual stage of Dzogchen meditation following the leap over system (Thor-Gal), and the light symbolizes our natural wisdom.

Significance of Lamp Offering
Offering lamp is particular, is a special access of dependent-arising to speedily complete the accumulation of merits and obtain blessings.

With the light brightly shining,abolishing this gloom,
I adore the Enlightened One,Who dispels the darkness (of ignorance).

~ Sonam Rinpoche ~

The Borobudur Grand Lamp Offering 2007

NSCF has organized the Grand Lamp Offering at Borobudur on 20th February 2007, presided by Sonam Rinpoche, with the participation of a lama and few devotees from Malaysia and Indonesia. Borobudur means “The Sacred Shrine of Thousand Buddhas”. It also carries the meaning of “Buddhist Temple on Hill” in Sanskrit. As the world’s largest Buddhist artifact and sacred site, Borobudur is definitely the best choice of pilgrimage for more than 150 years ago and that was selected by our supreme teacher Sonam Rinpoche as our first sacred site of holding the first NSCF Grand Lamp Offering.

The Jokhang, Lhasa, Tibet Grand Lamp Offering 2008

As one of the NSCF annual holy event, in conjunction with the Tibetan New Year, Sonam Rinpoche held the 2nd Grand Lamp Offering at Jokhang, Lhasa, in TIbet on the 9th February 2008. Thousands of butter lamp were lighted up, symbolised the light of wisdom that dispelled the darkness of ignorance. This specific offering was made with the sincere motivation of cultivating pristine awareness and wisdom in the hearts of all beings, thereby eliminating from its very root the shadow of ignorance that is the source of all misery in the world.