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            "value": "This tablet could be made from a lama\u2019s ashes as it has chorten stamped on it."
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                    "value": "Taken from commentary by Akong Rinpoche and Tsering Gonkatsang."
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            "value": "often pilgrims make tsa tsa from sacred clay obtained at pilgrimage sites. The tsa tsa are then carried back home by the pilgrim.  Since this tsa tsa depicts chorten, it was probably used in funerary practice. In this instance the clay of the tsa tsa could be combined with ashes from the deceased or a representation of the deceased. Funerary tsa tsa were often placed inside chorten or left at other sacred sites."
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            "value": "often pilgrims make tsa tsa from sacred clay obtained at pilgrimage sites. The tsa tsa are then carried back home by the pilgrim.    Since this tsa tsa depicts chorten, it was probably used in funerary practice. In this instance the clay of the tsa tsa could be combined with ashes from the deceased or a representation of the deceased. Funerary tsa tsa were often placed inside chorten or left at other sacred sites."
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