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A pass (5000m) with prayer flags in Ladakh, India.
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These colourful prayer flags will come to your mind whenever you think of Ladakh and any other Budhist region in the Himalayas.
Prayer flags are inscribed with auspicious symbols, invocations, prayers and mantras. Tibetan Budhists for centuries have planted these flags outside their homes and places of spiritual practice for the wind to carry the beneficient vibrations across the countryside. Prayer flags are said to bring happiness, long life and prosperity to the planter and those in the vicinity.
Traditionally they are fastened to eaves or sewn onto ropes to be displayed horizontally or fastened to wooden poles for vertical display. Sets of five flags should be put in the order: yellow, green, red, white and blue (from left to right or bottom to top).
The colours represent the elements of life: earth, water, fire, cloud and sky.
சஞ்சலமற் றெல்லாம்நீ தானென் றுணர்ந்தேன்என்
அஞ்சலியுங் கொள்ளாய் அரசே பராபரமே !!!
தாயுமானவர் பராபரக்கண்ணி
Under a full moon on top of Higger Tor, as the sun made it's final descent, three young Muslim men stand upon a huge boulder looking towards the moon.
One of them had missed last prayers at the local mosque, so with his footwear removed kneeling in the direction of the Mecca he began his prayers under the light of the moon and the fading sunlight as his two friends looked on.
What a perfect way to end a day. :-)
Lighting butter lamps is a popular addition to prayer in Nepal. People light many lamps close to a temple and recite prayers. It can get quite hot when close to the lamps!
What a change it would make if secret prayer were not only asking for knowledge or strength, but the giving of my life into the safekeeping of a faithful God.
Andrew Murray and Barbour Publishing, 199 Treasures of Wisdom on Talking with God (Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour, 2007).
On our way for a day trip to Jordan, we thought this airport policeman reciting the Quran looked interesting in the early morning light (05.33 am).
Although we did not hear the call for prayer at the airport, we could often hear it at our resort in Sharm El Sheikh and pretty much everywhere else we visited. It's quite a mystical experience for most Westerners.
Muslims pray five times a day:
1. Dawn prayer (Fajr)
2. Noon prayer (Dhuhr, Zhuhr)
3. Afternoon prayer (Asr)
4. Sunset prayer (Maghrib)
5. Evening prayer (Isha)
I'm still amazed how people can stand the oppressive heat of midday summer in the Afar Depression. We stopped in this town to have our lunch and it had to be around 100°F (38°C) and yet people are out in the sun, nowhere near any shade.
Berhale, Ethiopia
These ancient prayer books are in the Royal Shrine, in the depths of The Palace in Leh.
Ladakh, Kashmir and Jammu, India.
October 2015. © David Hill.
Buddhist monk, Brother Kato, of The Peace Pagoda in Leverett, MA, (originally,from Japan) offering prayers for Japan at the Vigil for Japan & Protest against the VT Yankee Nuke plant, yesterday, March 20, 2011, Vernon, VT.
A Tibetan prayer wheel from Grandpa's travels. It lived, until this week, in his 'cabinet of precious things', which I perennially meant to photograph, but never did until this weekend; sadly, the weekend of his funeral.
I'm very glad he told me the significance of many of the items in the cabinet before he died, though. This particularly chimed with me, as did the prayer bell (pun only slightly intended).
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- Erdbeben im Himalaya, Nähe Kathmandu-
Ich bin in Gedanken bei den Menschen in Nepal,
I sent prayer flags across the sky for you, love and healing light ~
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Deva Premal, Miten and Manose haben den Gayatri-Fund ins Leben gerufen, die Spenden gehen direkt an ein schon bestehendes Netzwerk in Nepal : Eva Holmberg Tedert (founder of Society for Street Children in Nepal)
The prayer wheel on the top floor of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore. This is an HDR image.
Here's one of the tiny flowers which grow on my Prayer Plant, nearly all year long.
It's about 1/4 in. Behind it you can see the Prayer Plant leaves, looking very huge in this macro. (The Prayer Plant is a house plant... sorry, this doesn't mean spring is here! At the moment it is nearing 0 degrees F outside, which is -17.7C.)
The focus isn't all I wanted. But I still like it. I don't know when another of these flowers will present itself in a position where the slanting sun will hit it, and it will show against the leaves. So I am just posting this one.
Another beach shot. My weekly walk with friends seems to be the only chance I've had to shoot lately. Thank goodness there's always something there to catch my eye.
The flowers spell "Gaza."
A prayer wheel is a cylindrical "wheel" on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone, leather or coarse cotton. Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Sanskrit on the outside of the wheel. Also sometimes depicted are Dakinis, Protectors and very often the 8 auspicious symbols Ashtamangala. According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on the lineage texts regarding prayer wheels, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.
Ngawal (3660m.), Nepal.
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Walt Disney World, Fla
Prayer flags dance in the wind along one of the trails at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
I'm always drawn to trying to capture these flags and never fully satisfied with what I get. Maybe I'll finally figure out a way to get the vision I see in my head onto the camera sensor this February.
Thanks for looking.
The Cowboy's Prayer
This is the prayer used By Roy Rogers at all his riders club meetings
Oh Lord, I reckon I'm not much just by myself.
I fail to do a lot of things I ought to do.
But Lord, when trails are steep and passes high,
Help me ride it straight the whole way through.
And when in the falling dusk I get the final call,
I do not care how many flowers they send --
Above all else the happiest trail would be
For You to say to me, "Let's ride, My friend."
Amen
Madonna - Like A Prayer
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