Butter Lamp House

Located within the Spiritual and Cultural Space at Samten Hills Dalat, the Butter Lamp House is a sacred place where each person lights a butter lamp – a symbol of wisdom, compassion, and inner light.

A butter lamp house is a place for offering light to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions and three times. This is to accumulate merit and purify the obscurations of all sentient beings. In general, the purpose offering butter lamps is to remove the suffering that comes from the darkness of ignorance and wrong views.

Similarly, one will have good conditions, a long life, good health, and the perfect enjoyment of wealth. One will always have the mind of loving-kindness, compassion, and bodhichitta. It is said light offerings will bring results in both this life and in the next.

The Sutra of Offering Light says: “If someone, with the mind of faith, offers a row of butter lamps to the Buddha or to a stupa, their minds will be totally purified, they will become supreme in knowledge of the world, all they see will be attractive, they will become extremely beautiful, and the whole world will be delighted”.*

Return to Samten Hills Dalat, visit the Butter Lamp House and respectfully light a butter lamp – may the light of wisdom radiate and guide all beings toward the shore of peace and liberation.