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"Prayer booth" outside a church in Kansas City, MO, I think somewhere in the vicinity of 39th St. W.
An interesting bit of background of the Baldan Bereeven Monastery can be found on the unesco pages -
Bishop Minerva Carcaño prays with Hispanic/Latino young adults and others in a lobby of the Portland Convention Center during the 2016 United Methodist General Conference. Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS
the colorful stuff were some prayer flags ..
there some wishes or scripture were written in Tibetans ..
something like 'amanibeibeihom' ,
once they are blown by the wind .. the prayer words will be read ....
The prayer cloth is covered with flames of people who are inspired by the Holy Spirit in our parish.
Prayer - Nazareth, Holy Land :: Prière - Nazareth, Terre Sainte :: Rugăciune - Nazaret, Țara Sfântă
Prayers & Light Rise Up
I took my troubled feelings to Nan Puoto Temple yesterday to join the prayers of others for relief of the suffering caused by the earthquake and other recent disasters. While quietly sitting alone outside and listening to the monks chanting I noticed how all the light and prayers around me were rising up, up...
this one is particularly for Susan
Series of 8 - #1
Prayer & Light Rises Up
Please see all together in new set
I bought this prayer wheel from Darjeeling, during my trip to Darjeeling/Sikkim in December, 2006.
A prayer wheel (called mani chos-'khor or Mani wheel by the Tibetans) is a wheel on a spindle made from metal, wood, leather, or even coarse cotton. On the wheel are written or encapsulated prayers or mantras. According to the Tibetan Buddhist belief, spinning such a wheel will have much the same effect as orally reciting the prayers.
Another photograph of the full prayer wheel can be viewed in my photostream at:
China. Yunnan.
At the southern foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, 13 kilometers (nine miles) northwest away from the Old Town is a small lamasery named Yufeng Temple - one of the Scarlet Sect lamaseries of Lijiang. First built in 1756 during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, it used to have nine courtyards, but only the gate tower, the main hall and two courtyards have remained after so many years' historical vicissitude. The beautiful sceneries around Yufeng Temple are special gifts from the deity. The temple backs onto a snow mountain and faces a meadow. It is surrounded by the flourishing forest and a never-dried river. All this makes it a really good place to visit.
The whole Yufeng Temple shows a distinctive and conjunct architectural style of Han Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism and the local Naxi Dongba Religion due to the cultural communion between different minorities and different areas in the Qing Dynasty. It is the compatible and harmonious trait makes the Naxi culture develop and enrich so quickly.
www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/yunnan/lijiang/yufeng...
Tirana, Albania.
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Tibetan Prayer Flags are a quintessential aspect of Tibetan Buddhism. They are used to bless the surrounding countryside and for other purposes. Prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bon, which predated Buddhism in Tibet.
The Indian Sutras, originally written on cloth banners, were transmitted to other regions of the world as prayer flags. Legend ascribes the origin of the prayer flag to the Shakyamuni Buddha, whose prayers were written on battle flags used by the devas against their adversaries, the asuras.The legend may have given the Indian bhikku a reason for carrying the heavenly banner as a way of signifying his commitment to ahimsa. This knowledge was carried into Tibet by 800 CE, and the actual flags were introduced no later than 1040 CE, where they were further modified. The Indian monk Atisha (980 – 1054 CE) introduced the Indian practice of printing on cloth prayer flags to Tibet and Nepal.
There are two kinds of prayer flags: horizontal ones, called Lung ta ("Wind Horse") , and vertical ones, called Darchor ( "flagstaff").Traditionally, prayer flags come in sets of five: one in each of five colors. The five colors are arranged from left to right in a specific order: blue, white, red, green, and yellow. The five colors represent the elements and the Five Pure Lights. Different elements are associated with different colors for specific traditions, purposes and sadhana. Blue symbolizes the sky and space, white symbolizes the air and wind, red symbolizes fire, green symbolizes water, and yellow symbolizes earth. According to Traditional Tibetan medicine, health and harmony are produced through the balance of the five elements.