Dear Jeffry
Thank you for your question. To recite the korma offering verse the practitioners should have the tormas to be offered to the Buddha. The followings are advices from H.H. Zong Rinpoche and H.E. Tsem Rinpoche that you can follow:
“H.H. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche has also mentioned that it would not be practical for the laity to offer traditional tormas, due to the time and effort involved in making sure that they are made correctly. Instead he suggested it would be fine to offer things that we like to eat, for example biscuits and cookies. We should make these offerings to the best of our ability and circumstance, as sincerity, trust and faith in Dorje Shugden will definitely bear results.
For regular practitioners who are not trained in the art of making tormas according to the traditional prescriptions, the tormas can be biscuits, cakes or cookies placed on a plate, bowl or cup which can be discarded in a clean place at the end of the puja. If you live in an area where this may not be possible, such as in an apartment, it is permissible to eat the tormas after the puja. If you don’t want to eat the tormas, you can wrap them up in paper and then discard them in the garbage.
H.E. Tsem Rinpoche encourages his students to represent tormas with a glass bottle that is filled with biscuits. The tormas are offered in glass bottles simply to prevent insects from getting into them. Or course, if you are travelling, in a hotel or other circumstance where it is not practical to make the torma offerings, you can still continue with your practice without any of the offerings, just the recitations and visualisations.”
For more information about Korma Offering, do read the information in this link:
Torma Offering Prayers to Dorje Shugden
