temple offerings
Devotional items given
Temple offerings are gifts presented at a temple as acts of worship, devotion, or supplication.
These may include food, flowers, incense, money, or symbolic items, depending on religious tradition.
The offerings honor deities, ancestors, or spirits and may seek blessings, express gratitude, or fulfill religious obligations: The altar was piled high with temple offerings.
- candlesWax lights with wicks
- lamp lightingActivating an artificial glow
- coinsMetal money units
- prayersReverent petitions to deity
- prayer beadsCounting aid for worship
incense · sacred fire · flowers · fruits · puja · libations · dana · consecration · hymns · ex-voto · offering · chants · altar cloth · vows · sacrifices · purification rites · grains · blessings
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- Asian customsbowing, chopsticks, tea ceremony, red envelopes, filial piety
- Aztec WorldTenochtitlan, Aztecs, Aztec, Aztec Empire, Nahuatl
- HinduismVishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh, Ganesha
- Asian BeliefsBuddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, Theravada
- Chinese Religionancestor veneration, Confucianism, Daoism, Taoism, Buddhism
temple offeringscharitable contributions
Donations to nonprofit organizations
tips · bribes · political donations · political contributions · gifts
temple offeringssacrilege
Violation of the hallowed
divine blessings · profanation · iconoclasm · blasphemy · apostasy