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Jewish Prayer .
Are the prayer recitations that form part of the observance of Judasim .
These prayers , often are found in the siddur , the traditional Jewish prayer book .
Prayer boards (Ema), hanging outside Daien-ji temple in Meguro, Tokyo.
People write their wishes and prayers on these wooden boards and leave them hanging at the shrine where the kami (spirits or gods) can read them.
Moscow. Novodevichy Convent
Camera: Kiev-4a + Lens: Jupiter-8M
Aperture="8" ExposureTime="1/125"
Film: Konica Centuria 100 (expired 01/2007)
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500 (+VueScan)
Photo taken: 26/04/2017
Took this at a monastery at Spiti ovally. There was a morning prayer session at the monastery - and it was mostly kids for some reason. I assumed it was going on for a while - because the kids had food and drinks with them and were happily munching on them when the prayers were going on.
“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”
― Dan Brown.
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a couple of nights ago we chanced upon a night prayer rally set up by demonstrators in front of the congress in quezon city, philippines. several demonstrators had their heads shaved to signify their protests against laws on land reform that the current government administration failed to implement.
For Jeanne. Thanks to my dear friend for a great conversation, and pushing me to release some angst I've had about sharing some of my work. I appreciate her perspective and wisdom!
My sister-in-law, Avona and her female Great Dane, Rosie, are inseparable. After a number of years with an incurable cough and discomfort, Avona was diagnosed with what they now know was a hereditary lung disease. Currently she is high up on the lung transplant list at Stanford Medical Center. Any prayers you can send her way would be greatly appreciated. Her spirits are strong and she and Rosie have plans for a full life together and perhaps a bigger car!
Wudang Monastery - Baotou - Ordos - Inner Mongolia - Binnen Mongolië - China
Gebedsvlaggen - Prayers flags
"Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD."
Psalm 25:4-7
Have a great and blessed sunday everyone!
... yes, it's sunday... though sometimes we forget, it's one day that we also have to thank God that we're still alive....................... and we still have our cameras to take great photos to upload here at Flickr. =)
Pattaya City, TH
Friday prayers at the 17th-century Mahabat Khan mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. Seeing this from an adjacent rooftop in May 2004 was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. This is what I wrote about the experience at the time:
Though its capacity was significantly smaller than the other great Mughal mosques, the Mahabat Khan Mosque was the largest in the old city and was Peshawar’s primary Friday Mosque. But it wasn’t big enough to house the thousands of men from Peshawar and the surrounding villages who wanted to prostrate themselves before Allah. No one could tell me the capacity of the mosque (one said fifteen thousand, which I knew to be a greatly overstated figure), so in the end I went into the courtyard and counted the tiled rectangles on the floor that were designed to separate one worshipper from the next. There were only fourteen hundred and one (the vast courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, by comparison, was reputed to be able to hold one hundred thousand people).
As Friday prayers began at one o’clock, I was overlooking the mosque from a rooftop across the street. The mosque was packed with fourteen hundred and one devoted Muslim men in shalwar qamiz and mosque caps, genuflecting, sitting and standing in unison, perfectly spaced in their individual rectangles, displaying a harmony in prayer that so contrasted the seemingly random acts of worship that took place at the many Hindu temples I had visited in India.
But the devout were not confined to the mosque itself. Those who could not fit in the courtyard climbed onto the rooftops of adjacent buildings, put down their prayer mats and performed the ritual there. There were little boys and old men alike, and as the courtyard worshippers went up and down, so did these rooftop dwellers. The practice had obviously been happening for years, because there were purpose-built stairs on the outside of the mosque leading to these rooftops, and at the bottom of these staircases were taps to allow the Muslims who could not reach the ablutions tank in the mosque’s courtyard to clean themselves before praying.
The Bishwa Ijtema (or Bishsho Istema, Bengali: বিশ্ব এসতেমা, the World or Global Congregation or Meeting) is an annual Tablighi Jamaat Islamic movement congregation held at Tongi, Bangladesh at bank of the Turag river. It is the 2nd largest Muslim congregation in the world after the holy Hajj.
well not much for prayers so here we go .. i let her lead in it this time.. she starts "I pray for cookies, chocolate cakes, and candy drops let it rain gummi bears and milk duds that's it ...num num" hmm I believe it supposes to be amen but leave it to a kid and you get a new one xD
This wall of prayer wheels were at our hotel in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan., We were at the very beautiful Druk Hotel and our rooms were really really pretty. As we progressed across the country the accommodation went from four star to maybe two star:-)
It is a prayer wheel in the street of Ladakhi village. A prayer wheel is a cylindrical wheel installed 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. At the core of the cylinder is a "Life Tree" often made of wood or metal with certain mantras written on or wrapped around it. Many thousands (or in the case of larger prayer wheels, millions) of mantras are then wrapped around this life tree. The Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is most commonly used, but other mantras may be used as well. 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.
A Prayer Wheel is a cylindrical 'wheel' (Tibetan: 'khor) on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone, or even coarse cotton. The earliest recorded prayer wheels was written by a Chinese pilgrim around 400 CE. in Ladakh at the temple depicted the in above photo.
The concept of the prayer wheel is a physical manifestation of the phrase "turning the wheel of Dharma," which describes the way in which the Buddha taught. Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Sanskrit externally on the wheel.
According to the Buddhist tradition spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers
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Inside the Prayer wheels thousands of shlokas and Hymns are inscribed. Rotating these wheels is equivalent to reciting all of them. Can it get easier than this ?
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Stone prayer bowls in an old Mexican church, in Villa Carbon, Estado de Mexico.