About Gyenze the Wishfulfiller

Gyenze is the special "increase" form of the enlightened protector Dorje Shugden. Also known as Ratna Shugden, he can bring outer wealth for success in personal, career or business goals, and inner wealth for spiritual growth, higher realisations and happiness across lifetimes. In particular, he is known to increase lifespan, material resources, merit, and all that is good.

With a body that is rich yellow-gold in colour, Gyenze holds a long life vase containing the branch of a wish-granting tree in his right hand, while his left carries a bowl filled with precious jewels, symbolic of his ability to bring us material resources and abundance in all aspects. Adorned with rich yellow robes, he rides a divine yellow palomino horse, symbolic of his ability to come to our aid swiftly.

About Precious Offerings

Offerings are an essential part of Tibetan Buddhism. According to Buddhist belief, the offering of any pure and precious substance to the Buddhas helps us collect merits, gain spiritual attainments, and creates the causes to attain a Buddha’s body — one that is healthy, pleasant and possesses charisma that leads others to the Dharma.

The offering of precious items which represent spiritual and material wealth, also helps us reduce our attachments to the objects we hold dear. This is essential to advance in our spiritual practice. For this reason, Buddhists are also traditionally encouraged to offer the best within their ability and means.

In the case of offering bowls and mandala sets, grains such as rice and barley were traditionally used to fill the offering vessels. These days however, precious and semi-precious stones are the offering substances of choice.

This practice of generosity also applies to Buddha statues and wealth vases. We can offer gold, jewels, pearls, and other precious substances such as silks and brocades. Our founder Tsem Rinpoche always encouraged this practice of making offerings as it creates the causes for us to attain the Six Paramitas (Six Perfections).

Further Reading

• Making offerings to Buddha (video)
• Why we make offerings to arya beings (video)
• A note on offerings by Panchen Ötrul Rinpoche

• Height: 35 mm (1.4-in)
• Diameter: 50 mm (2-in)
• Weight: 0.08 kg (0.2 lb)