I rejoice in your merit due to your wonderful work restoring this prayer wheel. The finished handle looks wonderful! Thank you for spreading peace and kindness by your actions!
Prayer wheels aren't to any deity, as we conventionally think of them in the West. The "prayer", usually it's one of the Sutras, is either written down on paper inside the wheel or inscribed on the wheel's surface. Each turning of the wheel counts as a recitation of the prayer. In the forms of Buddhism that use this modality, turning prayer wheels helps one to accumulate "merit" or "good karma". The wheels aren't specifically for speed, as one might think, but for adherents who likely would never have learned to read or write and never have been able to attend formal study at the monastery - in order that they might learn the Sutras themselves- so that even if illiterate and uneducated, they could still recite the Sutras and gain merit; so that they might progress to a better life in their next incarnation- perhaps even a life where they would have the chance to be a monk or a scholar. Fairly egalitarian, that.
I rejoice in your merit due to your wonderful work restoring this prayer wheel. The finished handle looks wonderful! Thank you for spreading peace and kindness by your actions!
Great video of the whole process Chet and I do LOVE the way the prayer wheel turned out! Beautifully done and beautifully restored!
Prayer wheels aren't to any deity, as we conventionally think of them in the West. The "prayer", usually it's one of the Sutras, is either written down on paper inside the wheel or inscribed on the wheel's surface. Each turning of the wheel counts as a recitation of the prayer. In the forms of Buddhism that use this modality, turning prayer wheels helps one to accumulate "merit" or "good karma". The wheels aren't specifically for speed, as one might think, but for adherents who likely would never have learned to read or write and never have been able to attend formal study at the monastery - in order that they might learn the Sutras themselves- so that even if illiterate and uneducated, they could still recite the Sutras and gain merit; so that they might progress to a better life in their next incarnation- perhaps even a life where they would have the chance to be a monk or a scholar. Fairly egalitarian, that.
Thank you for the input. Very interesting and I am glad to learn more on that. I appreciate the input.
Demonstrate instead of spending the entire video explaining it.
You have to watch fully in to get to the demonstration part.
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