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Lama Chodpa Incense is produced through the efforts of a charitable society called the Friends of Nub Gon Monastery (named after the Nub Gon monastery in Kham, Eastern Tibet). FNM is a non-profit charity formed between the monks and lay people of the village with the intention of easing tensions and social concerns and working on projects of great importance to the surrounding community.

Lama Chodpa is natural Tibetan incense, 100% organic and free of chemicals, pesticides or additives. the herbs are grown and blessed at the Monastery. The incense is hand made to the exact specifications of a ancient recipe with Tibetan tradition being strictly adhered to during the process. Using the purest possible ingredients (the mandated proportions of medicinal herbs), to the artesian process where the carefully dried ingredients are individually ground (using a mortar and pestle), the incense is blended by hand, mixed into a paste which is squeezed into 5 or 8 inch lengths and then dried by the sun.

The sticks are then hand packed in protective tubing, enveloped in screen printed hand-made paper and wax sealed using an auspicious sign seal of Tashi Jong (auspicious happy valley). There is no ecological damage associated with the production of our incense. The life process of nature and local ecology is constantly kept in the highest regard in all decisions from sustainable harvesting through the final stages of production.

All the ingredients used in this incense are blessed; one ingredient, however, is the object of a 9 day blessing ceremony for 12 hours a day by 150 monks. After the 9 day blessing, it is placed in a Dharma protector room to be blessed once a day for an entire year by a Meditation Master before being used in the incense.

Lama Chodpa Incense is available in four different formulas.

MEDITATION INCENSE: Helps cleanse the inner channels as well as soothe and refresh mind and body. Ingredients include saffron, silver fir, holy basil, cardamom, nutmeg, camphor, clove, cinnamon bark and rose.   Price Quantity Meditation - 15, 5" sticks $5.00 Meditation - 28, 8" sticks $14.00

CLEANSING INCENSE: Lama Chodpa Cleansing incense helps to remove external impurities and thereby refreshes the mind. It prevents the spread of certain viral diseases and is used to remove inauspiciousness. Ingredients include beddellium, camphor, valerian, cardamom, saffron, cinnamon bark, rose, clove and other precious substances.   Price Quantity Cleansing - 15, 5" sticks $5.00 Cleansing - 28, 8" sticks $14.00

RELAXATION INCENSE: This incense helps to relieve tension and frees the mind from depression at the same time as refreshing the local environment where it is used. Ingredients include lupulus flower, camphor, big cardamom, nutmeg, clove, dhoop herbal and other precious substances.   Price Quantity Relaxation - 15, 5" sticks $5.00 Relaxation - 28, 8" sticks $14.00

FLOWER INCENSE: This finely fragranced flower incense can be used during puja or prayers and will bring peace and happiness into ones life in a similar way as does a flower at its best. Ingredients include saffron, rose, inula rook, cardamom and other precious ingredients.   Price Quantity Flowers - 15, 5" sticks $5.00 Flowers - 28, 8" sticks $14.00