fyi, In Buddhism, the fragrance of the incense symbolizes ethics. Without ethics, we cannot speak of a person, a family, a society, a nation or an entire human race as having the utmost fragrance. Why do we use the incense when we pay our respects to the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas? It is because the ethics of the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas are of the highest order and therefore they are of the utmost, sublime fragrance -- lated Venerable Shen-Kai http://www.jenchen.org.sg/vol5no3a.htm