page_title: Fire pot
section_title: Censers
hierarchical_section_title: Fire pot / Religion and the arts / Censers
caption_attribution_description: Bahasa Melayu: Diambil pada Oktober 2005 di Pekong Bao An (保安宮) di Taipei Taiwan oleh penyumbang foto.
context_page_description: A fire pot is a container, usually earthenware, for carrying fire. Fire pots have been used since prehistoric times to transport fire from one place to another, for warmth while on the move, for cooking, in religious ceremonies and even as weapons of war.
context_section_description: A Censer is any type of vessel made for burning incense. They range from simple earthenware bowls to intricately carved silver or gold vessels, small table top objects a few centimetres tall to as many as several metres high. In many cultures, burning incense has spiritual and religious connotations, and this influences the design and decoration of the censer.
  Before a Buddhist tantric ritual, an assisting monk may swing a censer or thurible as he passes to 'purify' the room.  This is a container usually made of metal that hangs form three chains. Inside it, powdered incense that has been put on a smoldering bit of charcoal burns slowly, and the smoke escapes through pierced openings in the closed lid.  One tradition says that during one of the Buddha's sermons a monk heedlessly swatted a mosquito.  The Tathagatha is said to have ordered that, in the future, incense ought to be lit in order to keep the flies away, so that people could more easily concentrate on Dharma teachings, but also to prevent the needless taking of lives.
  Censers are used in the Roman Catholic, Anglo-Catholic, Old Catholic and Eastern Orthodox sects of the Christian religion during important rituals such as benedictions, processions and important masses.
caption: A large censer in front of a Taipei temple
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