Butter oil lamp is an oil lamp with butter as the burning source, which is more common in Mongolia and Tibet and has a long history. Butter is repeatedly extracted from the fat of milk or goat's milk. Butter is solid at room temperature, and its color is mostly milky yellow, while goat milk is milky white. Butter oil lamp has stable light and melodious milk fragrance when burning, which is one of the indispensable instruments for people to sacrifice to the gods in Mongolia and Tibet.

Recently, in order to save production costs, some manufacturers of religious instruments use oil extracted from plants as "plant butter lamps", which makes people puzzled.

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Whether it is a prayer ceremony at home or a sacrifice activity for the dead, several or hundreds of butter lamps should be lit. According to the scripture, burning butter lamps can turn the world into a torch, so that the fire will never be blocked, the naked eye will become extremely bright, understand the law of knowing good and evil, eliminate the darkness of blindness and ignorance, gain the heart of wisdom, make the world never confused in the dark, turn it into a lofty world, and get rid of compassion quickly and thoroughly.

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