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  • Uploaded by: Photo of bnilesh bnilesh
    In album: Darjeeling
    In Webshots channel: outdoors
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  • Date uploaded: Mon Mar 22 04:13:02 PDT 2010

Mansi turning the big Prayer wheel at Ghoom Monastery,Darjeeling. A prayer wheel is a cylindrical 'wheel' on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone, leather, or even coarse cotton. Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Sanskrit externally on the wheel. Also sometimes depicted are Dakinis, Protectors and very often the 8 auspicious symbols Ashtamangala. According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers. It is said that prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit or good karma and to purify nativities such as bad karma.

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