Thursday, 28 March 2013

Prayer Wheels



At Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, india.


These prayer wheels are built around Buddhist Monasteries or Stupas. These rows of large stationery  wheels attached to wooden platform which people can spin clockwise while they walk around the building, chanting the Mantra which is considered very beneficial.

                                    OM MANI PADME HUM

In the translation of a text by the Fourth Panchen Lama, Amitabha Buddha says “Anyone who recites the six syllables while turning the dharma wheel at the same time is equal in fortune to the Thousand Buddhas.”  In the same text Shakyamuni Buddha says that "turning the prayer wheel once is better than having done one, seven, or nine years of retreat" The prayer wheel is a very powerful merit field; one accumulates extensive merit and purifies obstacles.

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