#prayer wheels

[horizon5adventure]

[divinum-pacis]

People visit a local Buddhist shrine in Tibet.

Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

[tattooed-alchemist]

I had not spun the prayer wheels at the Buddhist temple in the neighborhood in over a year.

[grandboute]

Moulins à prières - prayer wheels

Free Tibet !! 

[kurseonghill]

Buddhist Prayer Wheel  -  A Spiritual blessing

Likewise many of us have visited Monasteries while traveling to the Himalayan region (India, Nepal) and have noticed or seen Prayer wheels beautifully embossed or mounted on a rod handle or axis made of wood or a precious metal-containing a tightly wound scroll inscribed with a mantra and also a small handheld size Prayer wheel which signifies the ancient Buddhist Tradition. A Prayer wheel is a hollow cylindrical wheel made from metal, wood, or stone, and on the wheel are written or encapsulated prayers or mantras. The inner and outer portion of the cylinder is inscribed by a sacred mantra Om Mani Padme Hum in an ancient Indian script or in Tibetan script. The mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is the most ubiquitous mantra and the most popular form of religious practice. Prayer wheels are also well-known as Mani wheels within the Tibetan language. It is believed in Buddhism that when a worshipper spins or turns the prayer wheel it will purify the negativities and will accumulate good karma and wisdom. It is also said that simply touching the prayer wheel and uttering the mantras brings great purification of negative karmas and obscurations. The Worshippers most often spin the wheel clockwise, as the direction in which the mantras are written is that of the movement of the sun across the sky. It is believed that turning the prayer wheel with millions of mantras inside is the equivalent of saying those millions of mantras, so turning it one time is the same as having recited that many mantras

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[jpknitt]

Swayambhunath Stupa, Kathmandu - October 2019

[goingtiny]

Of all the things I saw at the Seattle Garden Show, craftsman Chris Moench’s ceramic prayer wheels are the one which I most want to be able to incorporate into my tiny house design.  I would love to have an Axis of Hope prayer wheel set into or onto the structure of the tiny porch, near the entrance to the house itself.

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