Prayer Wheel BW

by Joan Carroll

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Prayer Wheel BW

Artist

Joan Carroll

Medium

Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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Prayer wheels are used by many Tibetans every day, sometimes for hours on end. Prayer wheels come in may sizes ranging from the small hand-held ones seen here to larger ones turned by flowing water, heat, wind, or even electricity. They may also be a part of a row installation, a familiar sight at monasteries. Prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit (good karma) and to purify negativities (bad karma). Prayer wheels are filled with copies of mantras associated with particular deities such as the familiar mantra “om mani padme hum.” The mantra is printed on very thin tissue paper as many times as possible, in some cases numbering in the millions. The paper is wrapped around a spindle and covered with a protective cylinder. Turning a prayer wheel with millions of mantras inside is the equivalent of saying those millions of mantras, but it is achieved in a fraction of the time. It is said that microfilm technology has allowed billions even trillions of prayers to be enclosed in the prayer. With every turn of a prayer wheel, the deity whose mantra is inside the wheel emanates from the wheel in bodies as numerous as the mantras. For example, if there are one million mantras of a particular deity in the prayer wheel, then one million emanations of that deity will go forth with each turning of the wheel and proceed to benefit the beings of the world.

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Tibet, Tibetan, wheel, prayer, prayer wheel, reflection, reflections

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May 23rd, 2020

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