Altar and Shrine Supplies

If you want to create greater peace, serenity and healing in your life, then create a shrine, and spent time there each morning.

Four Gates offers the shrine supplies and objects most often found on or near the altar or shrine, and include:

1) Incense, awakening the joy of fragrances,

2) Images in the form of statues of deities and sacred masters,

3) Candles and candle holder, and all forms of light,

4) Calligraphy and sacred texts,

5) Water offering bowls to fill with water, into which you can sprinkle saffron,

6) Thangkas or pictures of Masters, deities and great veneeralted beings,

7) Offering substances to place in the offering bowls, for examples chips of 7 semi-precious stones, or turquiose,

8) Shrine cloths upon which to place all of these above sacred objects,

9) Chants or sacred music to bring in sacred sound,

10) Practice tables or meditation tables,

11) The shrine or altars which supports all of the offering objects,

12) Food offerings, and flowers, or symbols of food offers. Many people use dried flowers to avoid cutting live flowers.

Your altar or shrine collects, concentrates and unites the best visions, dreams, values and beliefs like a reservoir collects water. Altars and shrines are a source of gratitude, blessing, sacredness and offering of your heart and soul.

Whether your drawn to the Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Christian, Native American or other spiritual path; altars and shrines are a positive addition to your home.

The Buddhist Shrine has 7 types of offerings, and lots of colorful expressions of virtue, positive energy and so forth.

For an altar or shrine to be complete there are many types of shrine supplies that can be added sacred to each spiritual path. This includes objects that awaken the five senses to offer gratitude, appreciation, connection and memories what moves you. Objects of beauty, goodness, virute and devotion are most common. Whatever creates a sacred space is positive addition to your sacred meditation environment.