Detailed Product Description

Exclusively Tibetan Buddhist praying instrument which always bears the mystical word OM MANI PADME HUM, Om the Jewel in the Lotus Hum numbering six syllables in the mantra of Avalokitesvara. These prayer wheels may be small and carried by pilgrims, or larger and fixed to the gates of monasteries or around stupas and chortens. Each turn of the cylinder generates as much merit as the reading of the sutra or the formula enclosed therein. All these objects are also called chhos-hkor in Tibetan, Wheel of the Law. Some are very large and, enclosed in small structures, turn under the action of a 'mill' driven by water.