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I'm painfully aware that this note justifying this stub is longer than the stub. I also appreciate the intent of

.

This article is necessary only because there were a few places that link here, that should not fall through to

. This article should be expanded to include,

• Which incense is offered to what deity (when)
• How and why it is done
• Any other special linking I've missed

Some of what is now

, but was a decent start at explaining dhupa. So, in part, this is a rescue without the {rescue}.

One could resonably think that this should be merged into any of

(which last should be renamed anyway, as it sounds more like a mail-order outfit than a title), but this would undermine the key problem: many additional things should be able to link to an explaination of dhupa, but would fall between the cracks of these three, none of which should necessarily even include a right-sized explanation of dhupa.

Interestingly, the authors of

.

Fianlly, in searching Wikipedia for "Dhupa", one finds references to a female Bodhisattva, a plant, as well as a number of places where this topic might be usefully linked. This article should play a roll in that disambiguation.

Comments welcome,

-SM 11:51, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]