Main altar with Buddha statue and monk, Truc Lam Buddhist temple, Dalat, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Donation box in Elijah's Cave Synagogue in Haifa, Israel, Middle East

Woman with candle and incense offerings, Big Goose Pagoda temple, Xian, Shaanxi Province, China, Asia

Temple of the Reclining Buddha (Wat Pho) (Wat Phra Chetuphon), Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Pilgrims praying at Golden Rock Temple (Kyaiktiyo Pagoda), Mon State, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Altar at Chinese temple, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia

Woman offering candle and praying in front of Crucifix

Buddhist nun meditating in the Bayon Temple, at Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

China altar with candles in a temple in a village in yunnan province

Candle offering for Wesak celebrating Buddha's birthday, awakening and Nirvana, Great Buddhist Temple (Grande Pagode de Vincennes), Paris, France, Europe

Local woman making an offering in a Buddhist temple, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Offerings in Khanh Anh temple, Evry, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France, Europe

Local woman making an offering in a Buddhist temple, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Monks offer butter lamps prayer, kalachakra initiation, bodhgaya. India. Monks attending kalachakra initiation at mahaboudhi temple in bodhgaya, india. mahabodhi temple marks site of buddha’s enlightment twenty-five hundred years. centuries have made pilgrimages across himalayas to sites connected with life of historical buddha. From a tantric perspective, pilgrimage is more than paying homage at sacred sites. Rather, it is that activities performed at these places become a memory of place itself. By attuning oneself through ritual meditation to this timeless presence, similar experiences be evoked

Kneeling woman praying to statue in church

Every night, Nightly puja on Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Every night, Nightly puja on Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Woman making offering, in the ghats of Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Every night, Nightly puja on Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Every night, Nightly puja on Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Offerings, in Wat Suan Dok, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Believers praying, in Wat Phra Singh temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Candles in a church

Figure of Mary with crown, infant Jesus and sacrificial candles, Church of St. Martin in Blaichach, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Sacrificial candles in the grotto, Lourdes, Department of Hautes Pyrenees, France, Europe

Offerings from pilgrims who receive the blessings of Bahubali by local priests on Indragiri hill in Sravanabelagola, Karnataka, India, Asia

A side chapel with offering candles in the cathedral of Salzburg Austria

Chinese woman is lighting a candle as an offering outside of Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin temple

Candles for memorial offering