Post Your Home Altar

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The purpose of this thread is to share your home Altar with other members of the dhammawheel.com Sangha. As a new Buddhist, I am not sure if this is tasteful or not and if not please feel free to let me know and the thread will end there.

Otherwise, please post your home Altar setup. :buddha1:

Here is mine so far. Sorry for the poor photo quality.
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Tropical alter
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your home altar/shrine
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Thank you for sharing DooDoot and Lucas. I would enjoy seeing other forum member's Altars if you care to share.

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i have thrown together little altars from time to time inspired by día de los muertos and janussoni sutta
just a few food items, some buddha figurines, flowers, dhamma, and water (offering to ghosts)
i made this one soon after dylanj died; he sent me that copy of deliverance of the heart.
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Buddha & Brahma
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I got this Buddha image from a Royal Temple in Thailand, Wat Rai King.

The Buddha image seated on a throne with Maravijaya posture. Everyday my family members will make Puja offerings such as incense, clean drinkable water, lamp, and have chanting session in front of the Buddha image every day and night.
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Ontheway wrote: Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:50 pm I got this Buddha image from a Royal Temple in Thailand, Wat Rai King.

The Buddha image seated on a throne with Maravijaya posture. Everyday my family members will make Puja offerings such as incense, clean drinkable water, lamp, and have chanting session in front of the Buddha image every day and night.
Thanks for sharing. Your Buddha image is very good presentation indeed in your home altar for devotional practices, such as chanting.

You mention "Puja offerings" for your home altar. Puja is certainly an essential ritual of Hinduism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism).
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thomaslaw wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:31 am
Ontheway wrote: Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:50 pm I got this Buddha image from a Royal Temple in Thailand, Wat Rai King.

The Buddha image seated on a throne with Maravijaya posture. Everyday my family members will make Puja offerings such as incense, clean drinkable water, lamp, and have chanting session in front of the Buddha image every day and night.
Thanks for sharing. Your Buddha image is very good presentation indeed in your home alter for devotional practices, such as chanting.

You mention "Puja offerings" for your home alter. Puja is certainly an essential ritual of Hinduism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism).
It is a common tradition in Indian religion (including Buddhism). It was considered as gifting ceremony, which usually done when meeting a holy person in the ancient India. To quote your Wikipedia link "to host and honour a guest"...
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Inside

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Inside...

What is that picture? And the octagon shape in the middle, remind me of some sort of fengshui thing.
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I'm not a ritualistic person, so this is all I have. My mom bought me the statue, I didn't ask for it, she doesn't know anything about Buddhism, and is a shop-aholic.

My spouse put it under the lavender flowers.
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If you click on the pic it should zoom. It's a buddha sitting on a platform supported by 4 elephants on a crocheted 8 sided thing
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