Prayer on the pilgrimage (Poland). For more: fototesty.pl/blog/273_na-pielgrzymim-szlaku-fotoreportaz....

The incense sticks signifies prayers to the gods.

According to the lineage texts on prayer wheels, prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit (good karma) and to purify negativities (bad karma). In Buddhism, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have created a variety of skillful means (upaya) to help bring practitioners ever closer to realizing enlightenment. The idea of spinning mantras relates to numerous Tantric practices whereby the Tantric practitioner visualizes mantras revolving around the nadis and especially around the meridian chakras such as the heart and crown. Therefore, prayer wheels are a visual aid for developing one's capacity for these types of Tantric visualizations. The spiritual method for those practicing with a prayer wheel is very specific (with slight variations according to different Buddhist sects). The practitioner most often spins the wheel clockwise, as the direction in which the mantras are written is that of the movement of the sun across the sky.

Source of text: Wikipedia

A prayer..what else to say ?

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During the Ardas when the couple and their parents are asked to stand during a short prayer

More photos from this wedding are on this blog post:

www.samaystudio.com/blog/2007/09/amar-parveen.html

An old friend from high school is going through a hard time right now.

Wherever she is, I pray she's given the strength to make it back home.

'Prayers (Long, Through Darkness) detail.

hammered nails, enamel, acrylic on wood. 12"x48"

in Chromesthesia @ the Tribeca Art Space

The mantra "om mani padme hum" is carved with impressive precision, into these pink round stones by a man who is sits, crouched all day long with hammer and chisle in hand. For a small fee you can choose a stone of your own to transform into prayers. Entire walls are constructed of these prayer stones. Some of these walls are over a kilometre long. Believers travel many many kilometres to reach these sacred walls in order to contribute a stone and add their prayers to the wall.

This is a piece of art in my home. It is a native woman bowing in prayer.

Dominican sisters at prayer in their Cambridge convent.

islamic prayer rug

A man reading Quran before Friday prayers

Namba Yasaka shrine through the many paper prayers hanging. Osaka, Japan

lets bow our heads...

"Prayer booth" outside a church in Kansas City, MO, I think somewhere in the vicinity of 39th St. W.

This grand old Ladakhi Buddhist man we met on our way to Lamayuru has prayer beads in his right hand which he counts in the fashion of a rosary while chanting the sacred mantra 'Om Mani Padme Hum'. In his left hand he is carrying a prayer wheel which he keeps spinning with a deft swing of his wrist. The wheel is filled with prayers and as it spins the prayers ascend to Heaven. What a nice way to spend old age!

This small Book of Hours is especially interesting for its profusion of humorous drolleries. Humans, animals, and hybrids are featured in the margins of each page of the book. The artists rendered in small scenes a variety of actions, like cooking, playing game, climbing, fishing, making music or moving the bodies in a dance. These drolleries amuse the faithful during his prayers, while showing scenes that work as metaphors of the soul fighting the vices. The original female owner seems to have been established in the diocese of Cambrai, judging from the use of the Office of the Dead. Several provenance episodes are evidenced by the book in the signatures on the leaves at the beginning and end of the manuscript. A priest in the sixteenth century wrote a message in code on fol. 1v asking to return to him the book if lost. Members of the ducal house of Savoy owned this book of prayer in the seventeenth century, as evidenced by the gilt armorial shield of Charles Emmanuel II (1634-75), duke of Savoy, stamped on the covers.

To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.

Japan Photo #14 part of my one a day series of Japan

Prayers hanging from a tree outside the Shinto shrine where my traveling companions were married.

islamic prayer rug

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

This was in near darkness, the ISO is 6400. Unthinkable just a couple of years back.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

Religious prayers praying in front of the Potala Palace

Eid Prayer is done twice per lunar calendar year on the two major holidays in the Islamic Calendar of Tradition. Kids enjoy themselves because they get to dress up nice, receive gifts and money.

Muslim Association of Guam

Mormon Christgethsemene

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 third important component of Buddhism- Prayer wheels. Anyone can spin them if it's to the right. Remember, don't go back that way!

Taken at the 7th Chennai Photowalk (re-run). A prayer session in progress at the Mylapore temple tank.

Check out the post on the prayer coach blog: prayer-coach.com/2014/11/03/how-to-impact-nations/

Praying statue in the graveyard of St Nicholas Church in Arundel. Slight desaturation rather than mono seemed to work better in this view

It was getting dark as we arrived at our last Mandalay temple-stop of the day, but fortunately the rains held off. We positioned ourselves on the upper balcony of a modest monastery - who's name I don't know - and waited as a young monk struck a metal bong repeatedly with a heavy wooden striker. Quietly, walking barefoot, maroon-robed monks emerged from all directions, and lined up to enter the prayer hall, where they sat for meditation, chanting and prayers.

For the story behind these pictures, please visit the "Ursula's Weekly Wanders" PhotoBlog post: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/religious-practice/life-in-t...

Xigatze, Tibet

The prayer cloth is covered with flames of people who are inspired by the Holy Spirit in our parish.

Prayer Breakfast Held by Marylanders for Marriage Equality. by Jay Baker at Annapolis, Md.

Prayer - Nazareth, Holy Land :: Prière - Nazareth, Terre Sainte :: Rugăciune - Nazaret, Țara Sfântă

I'm almost ashamed to tell you guys that this trinket of mine has gathered dust. But I look at this whenever I feel a little lost and need some answers.

Oh yeah, first picture with my DA* 50-135mm f2.8

禱告與夢想於逢甲夜市Prayer and Dream on Feng Chia Night Market

I liked the perspective here and then I noticed a group of muslim students praying and liked the symbolism of a group of muslims praying and the American flag right next to them.

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

istanbul march 2010

Prayer, Shiva temple

Jaipur

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