maramarenka
Tibetan monk. Dharamshala, India.
A Tibetan monk, with eyes closed in concentration attitude, roting his prayer wheel in Tsuglagkhang temple in McLeod Ganj, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile, near Dharamshala. In Tibetan Buddhism, the faithfuls use the "mani chos-khor" prayer wheels rotating them clockwise, with the purpose of accumulating wisdom and improve "kharma". As the believer turns the wheel, focus on repeating the mantra "om mani padme hum", the same as is usually inscribed on the wheel. This shift amounts to recite the mantra aloud, so the more times is written, the more powerful the prayer wheel as the mantra is repeated more times. Profits attributable to the practice of turning the wheel are numerous, even it's said that simply touching a prayer wheel brings great purification to negative karma.
Tibetan monk. Dharamshala, India.
A Tibetan monk, with eyes closed in concentration attitude, roting his prayer wheel in Tsuglagkhang temple in McLeod Ganj, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile, near Dharamshala. In Tibetan Buddhism, the faithfuls use the "mani chos-khor" prayer wheels rotating them clockwise, with the purpose of accumulating wisdom and improve "kharma". As the believer turns the wheel, focus on repeating the mantra "om mani padme hum", the same as is usually inscribed on the wheel. This shift amounts to recite the mantra aloud, so the more times is written, the more powerful the prayer wheel as the mantra is repeated more times. Profits attributable to the practice of turning the wheel are numerous, even it's said that simply touching a prayer wheel brings great purification to negative karma.