“It is very important to practice the Offering of butterlamps. Try to complete a minimum of 100,000. It is very good for your realizations on the sutra path. It is excellent for results on the tantric path.” ~ Tsem Rinpoche   His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche has advised on many occasions that it is very beneficial to engage in a retreat of offering 100,000 butterlamps. Such a retreat allows the practitioner to develop deeper wisdom, increase realizations and make a connection with the deity to whom the butterlamps are offered. Recently, Tsem Ladrang in Kechara Forest Retreat created a butterlamp offering facility in the hope of offering many practitioners the opportunity to engage in this meritorious undertaking.   The Benefits of Light Offerings The second chapter of Heruka Chakrasamvara’s root tantra advises that, “If you want sublime realisations, offer hundreds of lights.” In addition, by making light offerings one gains the following benefits: You become a light in the world. You achieve (when born human) the clairvoyance of the pure flesh eye. You achieve the devas’ eye. You receive the wisdom of knowing what is virtue and what is non-virtue. You are able to eliminate the darkness of ignorance; the concept […]