Is offering alcohol as a gift to ones ngakpa lama appropriate and does it have a specific meaning?

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lotuslogos
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Is offering alcohol as a gift to ones ngakpa lama appropriate and does it have a specific meaning?

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My question to you all: Is offering alcohol as a gift to ones ngakpa lama appropriate and does it have a specific meaning/significance or is it inauspicious or inappropriate?
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Re: Is offering alcohol as a gift to ones ngakpa lama appropriate and does it have a specific meaning?

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lotuslogos wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 11:52 am My question to you all: Is offering alcohol as a gift to ones ngakpa lama appropriate and does it have a specific meaning/significance or is it inauspicious or inappropriate?
Every time I go see my ngakapa lama I bring him some local booze. He loves it.
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