Prayer Wheels Samye-Ling

Ever revolving Prayer Wheel containing 21 billion prayers on 45 miles of microfilm, 3 each for everyone in the world for a time yet. Endemic in Tibetan Buddhism is the use of Prayer Wheels, powered by Water, Wind, Electricity, hands, indeed anything that will cause it to revolve clockwise, this one is electrical. The aspiration, wish of mind radiates for the benefit of all sentient beings. A static view.
Stupa Prayer wheel.

Hand powered prayer wheel. All of these were made in north fife, I enjoyed and learned a lot in the making.

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Prayer Wheel North Fife

Top view of the prayer wheel depicting a mandala of the eight auspicious symbles with appropriate coloured jewels for the four directions.
I Mentioned a prayer wheel in my previous post,it took three months to design and make, the crow was with me for all of that time.
It was made from Silver, gold, brass, copper and iron, bejewelled and contains 21 billion prayers. The concept of a prayer wheel is that as it rotates clockwise the prayer aspiration radiates benefiting all sentient beings.

North Fife Upper Flisk Crows on Christmas Day

North Fife Upper Flisk Crows on Christmas Day. Every year crows arrive en masse, swirl and burrel about, call and view each other.
In my life I have had many close encounters with crows. In Tibetan Buddhism Crows make the sound of the Dharma, Buddhist teaching. Ka, first letter of the Alphabet contains Ah, sacred syllable corresponding to the throat centre. Many years ago, I was commissioned to design and make a prayer wheel for a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery and during the process a crow would wake me by banging on a window of the house. Sometimes I would try to surprise it, it usually caught me out. Now this bird would even enter an open window and strut about on the design drawing, it had a wee white tuft of white feathers on its breast. This apparently signified it belonged to the pantheon of protectors, Mahakala, the Great Black. Anyway the prayer wheel was completed and the crow went away, until later when repairing one. So, for me the sight and sound of crows is something else.