Votive Thai tablet of terracotta, 9th-10th century

• In Buddhism, votive offerings usually take the form of a small clay or terracotta tablet bearing Buddhist images and contain text. These tablets are left in sacred Buddhist sites by devotees as an offering during their pilgrimage. Votive tablets served both as meritorious offerings and as souvenirs. Most were made of clay, while a more rare and expensive tablet was made from metal. Historically, votive tablets can be found in Asian Buddhist lands, from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, China and Japan. In Thailand, votive tablets are known as Thai Buddha amulets, a kind of Thai Buddhist blessed item used to raise temple funds by producing the amulets.

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