For Tibetan people, burning incense is a daily activity to pray for good fortune. In fact, Tibetan incense is also very popular among tourists from home and abroad. The Tibetan incense is brought in from India 1,300 years ago. These years, Tibetan incense producing becomes popular with the development of tourism. The incense made in Tunba Village in Lhasa is the most famous.
The Age-old Tibetan Incense Mill has its root in the time-honored Tibetan incense family specialized in incense production in the Tunba Village,Numu county. Inherited traditional Tibetan recipes and fine making process,the mill enjoys a history of over 1,300 years and boasts high reputation. It puts quality first by faithfully following traditional recipes and making innovation and thus, is able to keep the essence of traditional Tibetan incense in its products. Those products were first made by Thonopa Sijo Tseten, the inventor of Tibetan Characters. Later on, he passed down the secret recipes and producing technique to people in his hometown, Tunba village. The major ingredients of the Tibetan incense are saffron, snow lotus herb, muskiness, Chinese Caterpillar Fungus, red orpine, clove, borneol and sandalwood, and other dozens of precious Tibetan medicine and medicinal herb. Incense here is hailed to have four major characteristics: natural, fine, clean and pure. It is a combination of Tibetan medicine and Buddhist culture, with great practical and commemorative value.
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