| 单词 | butter lamp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter lamp butter lamp n. a goblet-shaped lamp with a central wick, traditionally fed with clarified butter instead of oil.Used especially as a devotional offering in Tibetan Buddhist temples. [Compare Chinese sūyóu dēng (18th cent. or earlier; < sūyóu butter + dēng lamp) and Tibetan mar me ( < mar butter + me fire).] ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > oil-lamp > burning specific types of oil butter lamp1852 blubber-lamp1856 1852 W. Hazlitt tr. E. R. Huc Trav. in Tartary, Thibet & China II. ix. 279 At the end of the saloon were three colossal statues of Buddha, before which were placed large butter lamps [Fr. lampes à beurre] and censers. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols vi. 83 The altar on which a butter-lamp was then burning. 2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) xvi. 307 Hundreds of plaques (embossed with prayers) stood next to black-and-white photographs. Incense and butter lamps burned below them. < as lemmas |
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