Consecration: The Bai Si, 1987

Consecration: The Bai Si, 1987

1987

The Bai Si. This ornament, made of a cylinder divided into three tiers and topped with a cone in which a candle and three sticks of incense are placed, is a symbolic representation of the Buddha, the Dhama, and the Sanghs. There are other versions with more tiers that symbolically brake up the Three Refuges into their components.

Consecration, photograph 2 of 45, from Cambodian Traditional Crafts and Religious Ceremonies.

View the Consecration group of photographs in order on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/BuddhaConcecration.

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