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You write a prayer or wish on to a piece of paper and tie it to the rope around the tree. Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
This girl was actually competing in our church's version of "The Amazing Race." She had to memorize a bible verse and recite it back to advance to the next round. 10,000+ Views as of August, 2011.
kondinin day3 Sunday... day of prayer.
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Members of the Vicenza Military Community gather for the national prayer breakfast Feb. 6 at the Golden Lion. Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Donald Rutherford spoke for the second year in a row at the event. Photo by Julie M. Lucas/USAG Vicenza PAO.
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Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags and very spiritual-looking feathers outside a door at "Area 51" New Years Eve.
Masses of colourful prayer flags at Dochu La, a 3140m pass on the road between Thimphu and Punakha in western Bhutan
I just realized that a bunch of photos that I love never made it to flickr. Time to rectify that situation.
I really miss these guys...
Prayer flags set against a very modern (in the artistic sense) concrete structure. I like the juxtaposition of ideologies. It seems consistent with the agenda of the Dalai Lama: the blurring of the lines between western and eastern thought, science and spirituality interwoven into one beautiful tapestry...
Yeah, what he said.
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...
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.
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.
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.
An old lady saying evening prayers to the river Goddess Ganga.Her humble offering of a candle and flowers can be seen floating downstream.
Haridwar,India
'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. Prayer Wheels originated from ‘The School of Shakyamuni sutra, volume 3 – pagoda and temple’ which states that, “those who set up the place for worship, use the knowledge to propagate the dharma to common people, should there be any man or woman who are illiterate and unable to read the sutra, they should then set up the prayer wheel to facilitate those illiterate to chant the sutra, and the effect is the same as reading the sutra' - Wikipedia