Water Purification Cleansing Prayer

Purification through meditation and ablution to wash away defiling elements are important practices in tantric Buddhism. Sanctified water is used alongside visualization and mantras to ritually cleanse a person of emotional defilements, karmic impurities, physical pollutants, problems, and negativities.

The blessed water, trüchu (ཁྲུས་ཆུ་), that is given out freely in Bhutan’s temples represents one example of water imbued with special qualities being used for spiritual purification. The practice of trüchu is akin to trüsöl in that they both are cultural mechanisms of purification, but while trüsöl  is a purification ritual, trüchu is a purification offering.