Tsatsal

Description

A Tsatsal is carved out of a single piece of wood usually left in natural colour. The carving on the spoon with nine symmetrical indentations forms a grid of three rows of three indentations each. Each of them is a four-sided pyramid into which the milk is poured. The flat bowl with its three-by-three grid pattern of indentations is the only element common to all these spoons. The grid (three down multiplied by three across) represent a sacred number to Mongolians, as do multiples of three. Three and nine are also significant numbers in Buddhism—and indicate the direct influence of Buddhist symbolism on many of these milk spoons.

The nine indentations of the sprinkling spoon symbolize the desire for health, the desire for material things, the desire for knowledge, the desire for communication, the desire for cohabitation, the desire for children, the desire for rest, the desire for sovereignty, and finally the desire for eternal life.

Additional information

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USA 

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Europe 

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What is REX? 

The Registered Exporter system (in short, the REX system) is the new system of certification of origin of goods that the European Union is progressively introducing for the purpose of its preferential trade arrangements. It will be first applied in the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), through which the European Union unilaterally grants tariff preferences to developing countries.

What is GSP?

The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is a U.S. trade program designed to promote economic growth in the developing world by providing preferential duty-free entry for up to 4,800 products from 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories. GSP was instituted on January 1, 1976, by the Trade Act of 1974.