The origin of burning sandalwood in Buddhism?

Tan is a transliteration of Sanskrit, which means giving. In a narrow sense, charity can be divided into three types: financial charity, legal charity and stomachless charity. Giving can cure greed and eliminate poverty! Generally speaking, financial charity is easy for everyone to understand, while Buddhist charity is to learn the wonderful methods of Buddhism from Buddhism, classics and good knowledge, deeply understand the jurisprudence, tell different wonderful methods according to different karma, and help all beings get out of the city of reincarnation and enter the sea of nirvana. This is the method of giving. Of the three ways of giving, giving is the best and giving is the best. Fearlessness is to remove the fears and troubles of all beings and reassure them. Broadly speaking, the real charity, the charity of the Great Bodhisattva, is to let go of everything inside and outside. No matter the wife's throne, the treasure of the national city, the leader's marrow, brain, heart, spleen and kidney, consciousness and so on, everything can be given to all sentient beings with fate and all sentient beings can be saved from the quagmire of life and death. So give and don't give, don't accept, don't give, three rounds of empty body, can't live in all phases! This is the best pay, the biggest pay!

The burning of sandalwood was originally intended to warn the readers and strictly guard the body and mind as a way of giving, thus abandoning the sea of life and entering the sea of nirvana. Later, it was given other meanings by later generations! For their own blessing, for the protection of the Buddha.