Turn the wheel softly
By ARM
@responsiveme (22923)
India
July 4, 2018 12:52pm CST
This is in continuation to my previous post of a Buddhist Monastery.
Here I am showing the prayer wheels outside the temple. These are cylinders of metal mounted on an axis that can be rotated.
Mantras or sacred texts are embossed on them
As people enter they turn the wheels, according to belief this is as effective as reciting the sacred texts.
I turned them as I walked along , believing in their healing power.
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(They set up something very similar, in tough and colorful plastic thing here at the local park. Kids love to turn them. I did in the past to please some little kiddies when I had to babysit them. 
)@responsiveme (22923)
• India
7 Jul 18
Nice to turn them anyway...Like ringing temple bells.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
8 Jul 18
@YrNemo no these are just wheels which are turned.
In all monasteries they are there at the entrance
I went there as a tourist and there was no festival on, it was late afternoon.
Just a couple of people around, a young monk who smiled at me as he worked in the outside garden, the inside had just been swabbed,it was dim and very peaceful .
I could have sat for ages but I had to catch a train
The bell reference was ,I meant these were like the temple bells at the Hindu temples entrance, we ring them before we enter
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@YrNemo (20254)
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8 Jul 18
@responsiveme there are sounds like bell ringing when you turn them? When I first saw the heading + pic, I thought it was something which acted like fortune telling stuff. (I read books which mention Buddhist Temples & fortune telling in the New Year. People visiting would take their pick in random, some sort of ready made stuff with some poems carving or painting on some bamboo sticks or cards. They are often not easy to understand.)
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
4 Jul 18
The whole place was peaceful.
Happy Independence Day.
Goodnight from across the water
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
9 Jul 18
Yes,there were many Buddhist temples in that area, all had a feeling of calm as you said
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
6 Jul 18
i recall a movie of Eddie Murphy wherein he made some fun spinning those wheels in his movie The Golden Child, about a young boy who was the chosen one. he rapped while spinning the wheel.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
5 Jul 18
nice idea - not being religious i'd see them as unscientific but elegant
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
5 Jul 18
They are beautiful and can be rolled even without bring religious.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
5 Jul 18
I believe they did.
I found all those places peaceful though I went there as a tourist and not to pray.
