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Taken in Nepal in 2006. We were in Kathmandu for a few days before flying into the Himalaya to climb Ama Dablam, near mount Everest. The prayer flags are intense, millions of them fly over the monasteries and gompas around the city.
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I carved the Lord's Prayer in this oak faced pallet which I found washed up on a beach in Ibiza, Spain. It took me a week, a line a day roughly, using just a stanley knife to carve the lettering. It was a joy to do it. I started it on the beach and then moved up into a forest overlooking a beautiful bay. A very tranquil week's work!
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This beautiful Prayer Tower is located at the intersection of Lafayette and Jefferson Streets in Pittsburg, Texas.
The Prayer Tower is made of Indiana limestone with a Vermont slate roof. It features a chapel and a 75-foot tower with four Paccard bells from France. It sits in a park with beautiful landscaping, a gurgling fountain and a life-size bronze sculpture depicting Jesus washing Peter's feet. The bells chime and play hymns on the hour.
In visiting the prayer tower and grounds, which was open and unattended, I did not see anything to indicate who built or maintains the facility. It is a peaceful and welcoming spot - a delightful find.
One of the highlights on the Xiamen (Fujian Province) tourist map is the sprawling Nan Putuo Buddhist Temple Complex. Built at the foot of the Wulao Peaks, it is named for Mount Putuo near Shanghai, one of the four sacred mountains in Chinese Buddhism, and a pilgrimage site for over a thousand years.
As the rough tracks and stairways lead off into the woods, the way is brightened with random prayer flags and vegetation.
During the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907), the Buddhist monks who lived in the hills here had the area established as sacred Buddhist land and built the first temple dedicated to the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Today, the extensively renovated complex spreads over 25.8 hectares, and houses (among other buildings) the Buddhist Institute of South Fujian.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/religious-practice/nan-putuo...
23 февраля 2014, Богослужения Недели о Страшном суде / 23 February 2014, Services of the Sunday of the Last Judgment
At least one guy (the one on the far right) appears to have been distracted :) - lempkin
Kabatas, Istanbul, Turkiye - June 2010
Men listening to the sermon before(or after) the Friday prayer.
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Prayer Flags are inscribed with auspicious symbols, invocations, prayers, and mantras. Tibetan Buddhists for centuries have planted these flags outside their homes and places of spiritual practice for the wind to carry the beneficent vibrations across the countryside. Prayer flags are said to bring happiness, long life and prosperity to the flag planter and those in the vicinity. Dharma prints bear traditional Buddhist symbols, protectors and enlightened beings. As the Buddhist spiritual approach is non-theistic, the elements of Tantric iconography do not stand for external beings, but represent aspects of enlightened mind i.e. compassion, perfect action, fearlessness, etc. Displayed with respect, Dharma prints impart a feeling of harmony and bring to mind the precious teachings.
The prayer flag tradition is ancient, dating back thousands of years in India and to the shamanistic Bon tradition of pre-Buddhist Tibet. Bonpo priests used solid colored cloth flags, perhaps with their magical symbols, to balance the elements both internally and externally. The 5 colors of prayer flags represent the 5 basic elements: yellow-earth, green–water, red-fire, white-air, blue-space. Balancing these elements externally brings harmony to the environment. Balancing the elements internally brings health to the body and the mind.
Buddhists added their own texts to increase the power of the flags. There are ancient symbols, prayers and mantras for generating compassion, health, wish fulfillment, and for overcoming diseases, natural disasters and other obstacles. In this present dark-age disharmony reigns and the elements are way out of balance. The earth needs healing like never before. Prayer flags moving in the wind generate a natural positive energy. Acting on a spiritual level the emanating vibrations protect from harm and bring harmony to everything touched by the wind.
this photos is taken on the concept that the bride and groom are not to see each other before the wedding. taking the time to share a prayer together without seeing their future spouse.
A little girl standing against the rows of wooden prayer plaques hung by worshippers outside the Meiji Shinto Shrine in Tokyo, Japan. The tree overhead provided dappled lighting.
Prayer flags, called as “lung ta” and “Darchor”, are inscribed with Buddhist incantations, symbols and dictums. Traditionally they are composed of five colours: yellow, green, red, white and blue each signifying five elements earth, water, fire, wind and sky respectively.
In Darjeeling and Sikkim they are sometimes uttered as lungdar or dharju.
Prayer flags can be of two different types: one is mounted on a vertical pole or bamboo and another is fluttered on a hilltop/roof top with the help of ropes.
Both the words “Lung ta” and "Darchor" are said to be Tibetan in origin, the former meaning wild horse while latter translating to good fortune of all sentient being. Besides Tibetans the use of prayer flags are also common amongst other communities like Tamang, Sherpa, Lepcha, Dukpa, Yolmo, Bhutia. etc.