A Buddha Raffle
Support Insight Meditation South Bay and have a chance to welcome a Buddha to your meditations.
We will raffle off three Buddha statues during our guest speaker series “Preparing The Mind for Awakening” from January to March 2018.
You may obtain your tickets at any IMSB event, or online on this page under the Tickets heading at the bottom of this page.
Through a generous donation from Steve Finkelman, the proprietor of TheBuddhaGallery.com, we have a lovely 16th century bronze Buddha from Northern Thailand as our grand prize, and two smaller Buddha statues.
Grand Prize Drawing will be March 20, 2018.
Drawings for the two intermediary prizes will be February 20 and March 6.
Purchasing Tickets:
You may purchase as many raffle tickets as you wish, both in-person and online at the bottom of this page. When you purchase your tickets online you will receive a follow-up email with your raffle ticket numbers.
All tickets, including the winners of the intermediary prizes, will remain in the pool for the grand prize drawing. So purchase your tickets early to maximize your opportunities to win a prize.
Ticket Block Rates:
$10 = 1 ticket
$25 = 3 tickets
$50 = 8 tickets
$100 = 18 tickets
$200 = 40 tickets
Shipping
Local winners may arrange to pick up items at either IMSB location in Mountain View or Saratoga. If shipping arrangements are required the cost will be the responsibility of the winning recipients.
GRAND PRIZE
Country: Thailand
Material: Bronze
Size: 12”H x 7.5W” x 5”D
Age: 16th Century
Approximate Value: $1500
FIRST INTERMEDIARY PRIZE
Country: Thailand
Materials: Bronze
Size: 7″H x 4 3/4″W x 2″D
Age: late 20th century
Approximate Value: $80
SECOND INTERMEDIARY PRIZE
Country: Tibet
Materials: Copper with gilding
Size: 8″H x 5″W x 3 1/2″D
Age: mid-20th century, between 1920 – 1950
Approximate Value: $450