A buddy of mine asked me to send over some Buddhist trinkets to him and his family in the States (none of them is Buddhist or even Buddhism-curious, really; for them, a Buddhist gift will just be "nifty"). I bought the ones he'd asked for, plus a few others, but I don't want to simply send them over with no explanation. So I'm in the midst of creating a sort of guide, or lots of mini-guides, offering explanations of each gift or category of gift. In some cases, because I don't know the significance or symbolism myself, I'm cheating by relying on ChatGPT as a quickie resource to help fill in the details. I'm adding bits and pieces of info from my own meager storehouse of knowledge (my area of "expertise" was more in terms of philosophies, major concepts, and broadly general histories, not symbolism, ritual, and iconography), but I'm learning as I go. I also realized that one of the gifts I'd bought really needs to be paired up with another item, so I'm going out tonight to grab that other item. At least I'll have one family's Christmas shopping done in plenty of time for Christmas!
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