Pema Grass Tibetan Incense
š1,300 years ago, someone lit the first wisp of incense in the Nimu Valley Ever since, not a single important event in Tibet has taken place without incense smoke āØThe Beginning Ā· A Starting Point, a Name In the seventh century AD, Tubo minister Thonmi Sambhota traveled west at the command of Songtsen Gampo to seek the Dharma. What he brought back was not only the strokes of the Sanskrit alphabet and the framework of the Tibetan script, but also an ancient incense-making method rooted in Tibetan medicine āļøIt was in the Nimu Valley that Tibetan incense was born. Cypress wood for its backbone, snowmelt as its medium, and highland herbs as its soulāthe moment that wisp of incense smoke rises, it is not for a pleasant scent, but for purification, offering, and setting the breath between heaven and earth in motion. 1,300 years later, the essence of this has never changed š¾Tibetan incense is not aromatherapy, not decoration, and not simply a scent. It is a covenant between highland plants and timeāburned away, yet leaving its fragrance behind š¦Carrying On Ā· Pema Is More Than a Name Pema means lotus in Tibetan, and is also the character in the name of Padmasambhavaāthe one in Om Ah Hum, Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum šThe lotus grows from mud yet remains pure and unstained; though the nature of the mind is surrounded by afflictions, it is pure by nature. Every Pema Grass incense stick is made with the roughest raw materials, the simplest hands, and the oldest formula to produce the purest fragranceāPema is a promise of quality, and a spiritual refuge āļøEvery ingredient in Pema Grass comes from highlands above 3500 meters in elevation. Rhodiola grows in rock crevices at 4000 meters, with ultraviolet rays and frost drawing out all its medicinal properties. A saffron flower contains only three tiny stigmas; it takes a thousand flowers to make one gram. Tibetan medical texts call snow lotus ća rare treasure of the snow mountainsć. Spikenard calms the mind and regulates qi, and is one of the oldest ingredients in Tibetan incense formulas. Not a single one of these herbs is grown in a greenhouse