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Each morning seminarians can take advantage of the opportunity for time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. This time of prayer is optional.
these three 2 metre-high paryer wheels were discovered by the North Sikkim Highway, enclosed in a tiny shack built over a stream, where the force of the water could be utilised to turn the wheels. (On each turn of the wheel a prayer goes up to heaven, thus creating Good Karma... or so they say... I wonder what the historical Buddha would have to say if he saw such attempts to effectively automate the process of enlightenment...)
Row upon row of glass prayer jars surround the statue of Puxian in front of Huazang Si at the summit of Emei Shan, Sichuan Province.
Prayer wheels are found all over Tibet. When the wheel is turned, the prayers inside and carried into the air, earning merit - or good karma for the person turning the wheel. This prayer wheel house was made at Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland - Europe's oldest and largest centre for Tibetan Buddhism. Prayer wheel house made by Rokpa Developments, Eskdalemuir, Scotland 2009. Wheels made in Nepal 2009.
Prayers, a Cholo Goth rock band headed up by Rafael Reyes, performs at Observatory OC in Santa Ana, CA on March 14, 2024.
We attended mass at the beautiful Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. It is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston. The first cathedral was built in 1854 (then named Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar). Like most buildings in Charleston, it burned down in a great fire in 1861. They started rebuilding in 1890 on the foundations of the previous cathedral and re-opened in 1907.
Handheld prayer wheel, central Tibet, early 20th century, silver and wood, 19-5/8 x 5 x 4-1/2 inches (Rubin Museum of Art)
Down the mountainside from the road two large platforms had been erected with what was, from my estimate, 1,000 or more vertical prayer flags. Once again, nobody was around to ask about it. Our guide thought there might be a small monastic school nearby.
Note about the pole tops: Many of the vertical prayer flag poles are simply tree branches, or sometimes saplings. Some have parts of the tree left at the very top: That is the simplest type of pole. Many have decorations mounted on the top, as do these, that replicate spear points. Some are more highly detailed, but most have a relatively plain appearance - gold and white being common. In a few instances the poles are topped with a more conical like gold painted pear shaped decoration (symbol for joy). If I understand correctly, more merit is earned by the erector when using a carved decorated top on the pole. I have no idea how the merit works out relative to the shape and color scheme.
I received some macro tubes off Ebay and together with an old manual Vivtar lens got some groovy shots of the wildlife that live on my Parsley plant. Both these critters were no more than 3 or 4mm long.
Who's upside down?
Not me man.
You're the one who's the wrong way up.
I'm cool.
Graves at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, with prayer ties
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Notre-Dame Basilica (French: Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal) is a basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The church is located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, at the corner of Saint Sulpice Street. It is located next to the Saint-Sulpice Seminary and faces the Place d'Armes square.
The church's Gothic Revival architecture is among the most dramatic in the world; its interior is grand and colourful, its ceiling is coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is a polychrome of blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. Unusual for a church, the stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary do not depict biblical scenes, but rather scenes from the religious history of Montreal. It also has a Casavant Frères pipe organ, which comprises four keyboards, 97 stops, almost 7000 individual pipes and a pedal board. (source: Wikipedia)
For his prayers in the early afternoon, a muslim man visits the Jama Mosjid mosque in Old Delhi, India.
Photo by Kelvin Joseph
These were for sale on a market in Lhasa, there is a prayer written on paper inside each one, and when they are spun the prayer is thought to be transmitted to heaven.
Schoolgirls at Udayan pray before lunch. After prayers, children line up for their food, return to their spot in the cafeteria, sit on the floor and eat. There are no tables, chairs or utensils.
At the TshuglagKhang....Mcleodganj.
A prayer wheel is a 'wheel' (Tibetan: 'khor) on a spindle made from metal, wood, leather, or even coarse cotton. On the wheel are depicted or encapsulated prayers, mantras and symbols such as the Ashtamangala. According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, spinning such a wheel will have much the same effect as orally reciting the prayers.The Dalai Lama has commented that animated GIF's on websites work just as well as other prayer wheels.[As the GIF image turns, waves of compassion in all directions in the surrounding area.
Some have suggested that the the spinning of a hard drive (several thousand rotations per minute) can act in similar function to a prayer wheel by saving an image of Om mani padme hum or other mantra on their local machine.