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Tsa Tsa memorial cones under a water powered prayer wheel in Bhutan A spinning water prayer wheel inside the small building is run by the flowing water and the small things that are placed outside the window are the mini stupas that are kept by the relatives of people who have passed away. When a member of the family dies their relatives put these cone- like objects as a memory of the person who has passed on in his/ her life and died. We start to see many small cones, maybe two inches high, carefully placed high in the mountains along the road. We were told that these are made from the ashes of departed souls. Researching, I find that these are called tsa-tsa (pronounced with a silent t) offerings. They are small stupa-like ("chorten-like," in the Bhutanese terminology) cones made of clay
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