Separatist Regimes, from the White Hall at the mTho-lding Monastery in rTsa-mdav County
Alms-giving means to offer food to monks. However, it has three meanings: Material Alms-giving (teaching Dharma to all sentient beings), and Fearlessness Alms-giving (saving all sentient beings from danger). Material Alms-giving completely depends on benefactors' wishes. The amount of money does not matter if he is pious. A lady on the upper part of the picture is giving alms to a monk, who is holding a bowl to receive the food, showing that people at that time piously believed in Buddhism and it already became part of daily life for them to give alms to monks.
