#116A
copper $45.00
#116B
copper $35.00
#116C
bone $25.00
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#116A
copper $45.00
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| The prayer wheel consists of a cylinder, usually of metal, which rotates on an axle. Inside the cylinder are wound sheets or strips of paper on which prayers or sacred texts are written or printed. Each revolution of the prayer wheel counts as one repetition of all the prayers contained in the cylinder. Since no evidence has been found of its use in Indian Buddhism, the prayer wheel is almost certainly a Tibetan invention. Prayer wheels have been popular instruments for at least five or six hundred years in Tibet. The wheels are always turned in a clockwise manner in the same manner that Buddhists circumambulate sacred moments. |